Over the past decade, Geoffrey Mazullo has contributed to financial sector reform efforts throughout Central and Eastern Europe. His familiarity with the region dates to 1985-86, when he pursued graduate studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Since 1990, he has conducted research and training on financial issues for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), other donors and the private sector from Ljubljana to Vladivostok and from Tallinn to Sofia. Prior to joining the Partners for Financial Stability (PFS) program, his project portfolio included assignments in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Poland and Russia.

Mr. Mazullo is an accomplished public speaker and trainer, and is able to address audiences in French, German, Polish and Serbo-Croatian, in addition to his native English. For example, while with the USAID-funded Legal and Regulatory Reform Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he trained more than 6,000 people (including government officials, the business community and students at economics and law faculties) on commercial law reform issues.

His research on corporate governance has been published in Russia Portfolio, Central Europe Portfolio, Turnarounds and Workouts Europe, Corporate Governance Advisor and The Wall Street Journal Europe. He has chaired Capital Markets Conferences for the Adam Smith Institute in Vienna (November 1997) and London (June 1998) as well as for ICM in Prague (April 2000).