ICI Global Leadership

Michael Pedroni is the Investment Company Institute’s Chief Global Affairs Officer and leads ICI Global.  Michael is responsible for ICI’s international regulatory and policy work to support regulated investment funds and their investors around the world. 

Michael has extensive public and private sector experience in international engagement and financial policy, having served at the U.S. Treasury, White House, Federal Reserve and International Monetary Fund.  Most recently, he was executive vice president and managing director for global markets and research at the Managed Funds Association, where he led international activities and raised the association’s profile in Europe, while also directing the development of global research. Prior to that, as a member of the Treasury Department’s Senior Executive Service, he served under four U.S. Treasury Secretaries, beginning in 2008 as the first Director of the re-established Markets Room as the financial crisis was unfolding. Michael was subsequently appointed as the U.S. financial attaché to the European Union and head of Treasury’s office in Europe for three years beginning in 2013.  In 2016, he began a White House detail, acting as senior director for global economics and finance under the Obama Administration, and rejoined Treasury in late 2016 as senior executive director for international economic analysis.  Pedroni started his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and later worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund and at ICAP, an inter-dealer-broker.

Michael is a graduate of Yale University and received a master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University. In addition, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Germany and is conversational in German, Italian, and basic French. Michael also is an adjunct professor in the department of economics at George Washington University, where he teaches a course on managing international economic crises.

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Lisa Cheng is a research analyst at ICI Global Asia-Pacific, working on APAC policy issues that affect the fund industry, with a special emphasis on China. She also works on ESG-related policy issues that affect regulated funds and their managers at the international level, as well as in Europe and Asia. Before joining ICI Global, Cheng was a researcher at Asian Private Banker, where she designed and developed an online research platform for fund selection in Asia. Additionally, she led a research project on Singapore’s role as an offshore wealth hub and produced market sentiment analysis studies every quarter. Cheng holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and finance from the University of Hong Kong and an MSc in fintech and financial analytics from Hong Kong Baptist University.

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Elizabeth Lance is assistant chief counsel of ICI Global. Before joining ICI Global, Elizabeth was Vice President and Legal Counsel for Legislative and Regulatory Affairs at T. Rowe Price where she was responsible for monitoring global regulatory developments affecting T. Rowe Price’s entities, products, distribution and operations, including advisory, investments, and corporate functions. Elizabeth previously served as Attorney Advisor for Regulatory Policy in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of International Affairs. At the SEC, she received the Chairman’s Award for Excellence, served a six month detail to the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations Risk’ Analysis and Surveillance group, and was awarded a Presidential Management Fellowship. Elizabeth graduated from the College of William and Mary with a BA in Anthropology, and from Vermont Law School with honors.

Eva M. Mykolenko is associate chief counsel, securities regulation with the Investment Company Institute and ICI Global. Mykolenko advocates on behalf of US and global, regulated funds and their investors to securities regulators and multinational organizations in the United States and abroad. She started with the Institute in 2008 after more than eight years in private practice at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Shearman & Sterling LLP. While in private practice, Mykolenko advised mutual fund, hedge fund, and investment adviser clients on a variety of compliance, regulatory, and transactional matters. Mykolenko received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School.

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Giles Swan is director of global funds policy at ICI Global. Swan joined ICI Global from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) as a technical specialist on the collective investment schemes policy team. Swan led negotiations for the FSA in the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, and chaired an ESMA task force developing the directive’s implementing measures. Additionally, he represented the FSA in ESMA’s Investment Management Standing Committee. Swan moved to the FSA in 2005 after beginning his career in the European mutual funds sector. Swan holds a BA, first class, from London Guildhall University and an MSc in finance and investment from CASS Business School.

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