Dr. Angel Gavieiro Besteiro has more than 25 years of international executive experience as a banker and strategist across corporate and investment banking and retail and commercial banking, covering EMEA, North America, and Asia-Pacific markets out of the UK, the UAE, and Spain. As a strategist, he has held senior executive roles as SVP/divisional head of strategy and business development for Barclays Bank’s international retail and commercial banking division, Lloyds Bank’s wholesale banking and markets division, and Wells Fargo’s EMEA region. Before that, he was a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. In addition, he is the founder and managing partner of AG Strategy & Partners, a London-based management consulting and advisory boutique focused on the financial services industry. As a banker, Angel has run business P&L as SVP head of domestic corporate markets for Al Hilal Bank’s wholesale banking division and agency treasury services and corporate finance for Lloyds Bank’s financial institutions group, starting his career in debt capital markets at Société Générale. He has an MBA from Duke University (USA) and Ph.D. in financial economy from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). Angel is a Fulbright scholar, Fuqua scholar, and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers of the City of London.