From Montego Bay to Salzburg, Medcraft is on the job
As the chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Greg Medcraft wraps up the final period of appointment, he will attend no fewer than six overseas events in places ranging from Salzburg to Montego Bay, Jamaica.
ASIC has released Medcraft’s proposed international travel itinerary for the period from January to June, this year, revealing that he intended spending 17 to 23 January in Davos and Paris attending the World Economic Forum and attending various meetings before heading off to Milan in Italy in February for the board meeting of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).
Later this month he is scheduled to fly to Washington, London, and Oxford for meetings of the International Monetary Fund/World Bank, the British Australian Fintech Forum in London and then a private conference in Oxford.
From the 14 to 18 of May Medcraft will be in Jamaica attending the IOSCO annual conference and holding side meetings, before in June jetting off to Barcelona for a Global ABS conference before later in the month travelling to Salzburg for the Salzburg Global Seminar – Board Meeting and Forum on Finance.
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