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Keith Checkley began his finance career with various management assignments in Financial Institutions. He later assumed senior roles in credit and risk management and was responsible for, amongst other things, sector risk analysis, bank exposure monitoring, corporate restructuring, and turnaround management. He also spent time in Marketing and developing an extensive Business Development Project for the Southeast Region of the Financial Institution, which was later rolled out  nationally. 

Keith's most recent corporate appointment was as Director-Strategic Consultant Business Development for a large Trillion International Financial Services group with HQ in London. 

Over the past years, Keith has worked as an independent Strategic Consultant, advising on several consulting situations and designing and implementing training programs for many educational institutes/business schools; banks; financial institutions and large corporates. He has had extensive experience in the UK, North America, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe; Middle East and Far East - including Malaysia/Singapore/ Hong Kong/China and South Korea. 

Keith has extensive knowledge and experience in working with Offshore centers; both in international co-operation and designing joint initiative programmes.  

Keith' academic experiences includes holding a Fellow in Banking appointment at the Manchester Business School and as a visiting Fellow at Cambridge University – the Moeller Management Centre, Judge Business School. 

In November 2008 Keith was elected a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers Scotland and received the designation of Chartered Banker. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (London), and a member of their National Speakers Panel. Keith is author of 17 books on business finance with the most recent “Credit masterclass “recommended text for the chartered Banker MBA”. 

Dr. Haughton is the managing director of a boutique financial and risk management consultancy based in the UK. He holds a doctorate in mathematical computer science (from the University of Wolverhampton) a Master’s diploma (achieved with Distinction) in financial strategy (from the University of Oxford), a Master’s degree, in mathematical finance (Distinction), from the University of York and a B.Sc. in Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science from Teeside University.

Dr. Haughton is a visiting senior research fellow at King’s College London, a Fellow of the UK Institute of Mathematics & its applications, a Certified Treasury Professional and a Fellow of the American Academy of Financial Management (AAFM). He holds the designations of Chartered Asset Manager. Chartered Portfolio Manager, Chartered Wealth Manager and Chartered Risk Analyst of the AAFM.