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Policy and Enforcement
Policy and Enforcement
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Mr George Pickering
Managing Director, Policy and Enforcement
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Mr. Pickering’s regulatory and financial markets experience spans over 30 years. In his most recent role, Mr. Pickering was the Chief of the Funds Management and Banking Department at Bank of Canada where he was responsible for the fiscal agent policy in government debt, foreign reserves, and risk management and the Bank’s government banker activities. He served as an Adviser to the Governor and was Secretary to the Governing Council from 2004-2005. He was a member of the Financial Stability Review Committee from 2001-2010 and Chair of the Canadian Foreign Exchange Committee from 2004-2008.
Mr. Pickering worked at the Bank for International Settlements from 1990-2001. He was the first Chief Representative for Asia and the Pacific for the BIS in Hong Kong from 1998-2001. He held several management positions in the Banking Department and Risk Section of the BIS in Basel from 1990 to 1998. He was Advisor to Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC from 1984-1986.
Mr. Pickering holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and a Master’s degree in Economics from Carleton University in Ottawa (Canada).
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Ms Prue Morris
Director, Policy
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Ms Morris joined the QFC Regulatory Authority in October 2006, from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) in Australia. Prue was a senior policy officer at APRA and involved in all aspects of prudential policy work in the banking, insurance and superannuation (pension) industries and liaised extensively with APRA’s supervision divisions in the development and implementation of policy proposals. She was also responsible for all legislative work and coordination with the Commonwealth Treasury and Attorney-General’s Department on APRA’s policy issues from 2000 – 2006. Prior to her position with APRA, Prue was appointed as Manager, Coal Competitiveness at the Australian Department of Industry, Science and Resources. This role contributed to progressing Australia’s coal related energy policy through APEC forums, and building bi-lateral relationships with countries to address market access issues and expand Australian coal exports. Prue’s career commenced in APRA’s predecessor organisation, the Insurance and Superannuation Commission where she worked on insurance and superannuation policy, legislative and market conduct issues. Mrs. Morris holds a Bachelors degree in Law and Bachelors degree in Commerce from Bond University in Australia.
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Director, Enforcement |
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Ms Babbar has wide knowledge of the law affecting financial services regulation including policy initiatives and implementation as well as all aspects of enforcement activity.
She is a qualified solicitor from the United Kingdom with extensive experience of financial services regulatory matters and commercial litigation. Ms Babbar joined the QFC Regulatory Authority from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) where she was a Legal Adviser to the Regulatory Decisions Committee.
She has also worked as Enforcement Counsel within the Enforcement Division of the FSA and has been involved in a wide variety of regulatory matters, both contentious and non contentious.
Prior to her roles at the FSA, Ms Babbar worked in private practice in the City of London.
Ms Babbar holds an LLB from the London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) and the Solicitors Post Graduate Professional Examination.
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