Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

The more anxious isolated and time-deprived we are the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family friends and neighbors we become less likely to call on them for help and they on us.

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.

I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.

As you know Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

I delivered lectures and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance both private equity and big venture capital funds.

Europe is difficult to coordinate and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.