Arun Muralidhar, has experience in and has written extensively on pension reform, asset allocation and currency management. Arun is Chairman and Founder of Mcube Investment Technologies LLC (www.mcubeit.com), and Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of AlphaEngine Global Investment Solutions (AEGIS). Both firms assist pension funds and sovereign funds in asset allocation, currency management and external manager oversight through customized investment advice and the award-winning AlphaEngine® technology. Arun has served as Managing Director at FX Concepts Inc (2001-2008)., Managing Director/Head of Currency Research, at J.P. Morgan Fleming Asset Management (1999-2001) and prior to that, he was Head of Research and member of the Investment Management Committee at The World Bank (1992-1999). Arun is the author of Innovations in Pension Fund Management – Stanford University Press, 2001 (translated into Japanese and Chinese). He is also co-author with the late Prof. Franco Modigliani on a book on reforming Social Security, titled, Rethinking Pension Reform – Cambridge University Press, 2004 and recently edited European Pension Reform, Luxembourg Institute of International Studies, 2007. He holds a PhD in Managerial Economics from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a B.S. from Wabash College.