London

John Howell and Co. Ltd

John Howell studied Modern History at Oxford University before entering the shipping industry. In 1979 he was awarded a Robert Schuman Scholarship to the European Parliament in Luxembourg and prepared the Transport Committee's report on Greek Accession to the EC. After training in IT with Andersen Consulting he entered the investment banking industry, where he was latterly Head of German Desk at Nomura International plc and Geschäftsführer (Managing Director) of its Berlin privatisation and corporate finance joint venture.

An independent consultant since 1992, and in addition to advising on fixed income debt issuance, he advises both public and private sector borrowers on better regulation and good governance. He is a specialist in regulatory compliance in which field he has worked with the UK Financial Services Authority (Money Laundering Rules), EBRD (Czech Capital Markets Restructuring Program) the Dutch Ministry of Justice (Compliance Glossary) and the Regulatory Management and Reform Group, OECD (Global Regulatory Compliance Review). He also helped the International Chamber of Commerce with the establishment of its Commercial and Computer Crime Units and was Rapporteur for the Crime on the Internet Study Group (Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation 1997). From 1998 - 2001 he was on the Advisory Board of the Computer Security Research Centre at the London School of Economics. He is co-author of the ICC Guide to the Prevention of Money Laundering.

Most recently, he has been involved in advising the Hungarian government on FATF Delisting and HM Treasury on Beneficial Ownership of Unlisted Companies. He also advised on the design of the Regulatory Impact Analysis Framework of the Dutch National Bank. In 2003 he was appointed to the National Audit Office's Expert Panel on the Quality of Regulation.

John Howell speaks Dutch, French and German. He is a UK citizen.

Firs House,
Firs Lane
Shamley Green
Surrey, GU5 0UU
Tel/Fax (+44 1483) 890212/890213

john.howell@firs.co.uk