Chris Turner joined Lombard Street Research in June 2006 as Head of Strategy. He has twenty years experience as an investment strategist and portfolio manager, spanning currency, equity and fixed income markets. His work concentrates on developing and monitoring investment strategies based on themes within our economic research, with emphasis on tactical asset allocation, US and global equities, currencies and commodities. His experience on the "buy side" included six years at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers as a manager of global equity and tactical asset allocation portfolios and a further three years co-founding and running a global macro hedge fund. Between 1989 and 1997 he worked for Barclays de Zoete Wedd, spending three years in Tokyo as Senior Money and Bond Market Economist and then five years in London as Chief Currency Strategist, when he appeared in the top 3 of the annual Thomson Extel Survey for 4 consecutive years. Chris has a BA in Economics from Cambridge University and began his career as an economist with the Bank of England.

Michael Taylor joined Lombard Street Research as Senior Economist in December 2005 after five years at Merrill Lynch as a euro-zone economist and equity strategist. Prior to this he had another four-year stint at Lombard Street Research working with Tim Congdon. His early working career was as economic adviser at the Department of Trade and Industry and as Chief Economist at the Institute of Directors. His first degree was in banking and finance from City University and he gained a Masters from the London School of Economics. Within the GIO team, Michael now concentrates on equity strategy for the UK and euro-zone markets.

Leigh Skene is a Canadian who has been involved in financial markets ever since he first purchased equities when he was a teenager. He became involved in debt analysis and trading at the Sun Life Assurance company of Canada. At investment bank Burns, Fry and Company (now BMO Nesbitt Burns) he was Head of Fixed Income Trading, then Chief Economist. In 1980 he left Burns Fry and established himself as an independent economic consultant specializing in financial markets. With financial markets becoming ever more global, he moved to England in 1993 to help his clients gain better international perspective. In 2007, he wrote three key reports for LSR: "The ABC of 21st Century Risk" (March); "Sub-prime mortgage fiasco - the start of something big" (June); and "Credit and credibility" (September). For GIO, Leigh concentrates on identifying investment opportunities in the money and bond markets (both sovereign and corporate). He is the author of four books, Managing a Bond Portfolio, 1977; The Canadian Economy: its problems and its potential, 1978; That's the Way the Money Goes, 1988 and Cycles of Inflation and Deflation, 1992.

Adrian Phillips has over 25 years experience of international equity markets. He has worked with Williams de Broë, Dresdner Kleinwort and Société Générale; his career has embraced both national equity market investment strategy and research into individual companies and sectors. The research team that he managed for Continental Europe at Dresdner Kleinwort was ranked number one by Extel and he was personally ranked in the top three by both Extel and Institutional Investor for company research and strategy research in Germany. Amongst the many investment banking mandates that he supported was the privatisation of St Gobain, the first ever by a French government, for which he was the lead analyst. More recently his work has covered the global technology hardware industry. He has written studies on investing in a number of global sectors for Lombard Street Research including steel, semiconductors and automakers.