Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
Chairman and Head of Research
Capital Fund Management
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud is a pioneer in Econophysics. He co-founded the company Science & Finance in 1994, which merged with Capital Fund Management (CFM) in 2000.
In 2018 he was appointed as an adjunct Professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure, where he teaches a course on complex systems. He is also a member of the French Académie des Sciences.His work includes the physics of disordered and glassy systems, random matrix theory, models of price fluctuations and price impact and macroeconomic agent based models.
He was awarded the CNRS Silver Medal in 1995, the Risk Quant of the Year Award in 2017, and the Lars Onsager prize in 2024.
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Hans Buehler
Co-CEO
XTX Markets
Hans is the Co-CEO of XTX Markets, the leading algorithmic trading firm. Prior to joining XTX Markets, Hans held several senior positions at J.P. Morgan, including Global Head of Equities Analytics, Automation and Optimization. Hans was also Global Head of Equity Derivatives Quantitative Research at Deutsche Bank for seven years.
His PhD from TU Berlin was awarded for modelling of volatility markets and in recent years he has published widely on the use of AI methods for financial applications, winning industry accolades for the work.
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Andrea Eisfeldt
Laurence D. and Lori W. Fink Endowed Chair in Finance
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Andrea is the Laurence D. and Lori W. Fink Endowed Chair in Finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Her research focuses on the relationship between financial markets and the macroeconomy.
She recently served on the board of the American Finance Association, and currently serves on the board of the UCLA Investment Company.
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Nicole El Karoui
Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics
Sorbonne University
Nicole is a Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at Sorbonne University, who has made foundational contributions to the mathematical theory of stochastic control, backward stochastic differential equations and their application in mathematical finance.
She is also the founder of the pioneering Master Program in Probability and Finance (“DEA El Karoui”) operated by École Polytechnique and the Pierre and Marie Curie University.
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Damir Filipovic
Swissquote Chair in Quantitative Finance and SFI Senior Chair
EPF Lausanne
Damir holds the Swissquote Chair in Quantitative Finance at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and a Swiss Finance Institute Senior Chair. He also acts as director of the Finance and Technology Programme.
His research focus is in quantitative finance and risk management, and he has also worked for the Swiss Federal Office of Private Insurance as co-developer of the Swiss Solvency Test.
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Albert 'Pete' Kyle
Distinguished University Professor and the Charles E. Smith Chair in Finance
University of Maryland
Pete is a Distinguished University Professor and the Charles E. Smith Chair in Finance at the University of Maryland. His research focuses on market microstructure, including topics such as high frequency trading, informed speculative trading, market manipulation, price volatility, the informational content of market prices, market liquidity, and contagion.
He has been a board member of the American Finance Association and was a staff member of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms, a consultant to the SEC, CFTC, and U.S. Department of Justice, a member of NASDAQ’s economic advisory board, a member of the FINRA economic advisory board (2010-2014), and a member of the CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee.
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Laurent Laizet
Co-Founder and CIO
Qube Research and Technologies
Under Laurent's leadership, Qube Research & Technologies spun out in December 2017 from Credit Suisse, where he had been Head of the Systematic Market Marking Group in Europe.
He previously worked at Société Générale in a variety of senior quantitative trading roles including European Head of Systematic and Quantitative Trading (2001 - 2007) and Global Head of Arbitrage Trading (2008 - 2009).
Laurent has more than 25 years of experience in quantitative and structured trading. He holds degrees in Mathematics and Economics from École Polytechnique and ENSAE Paris.
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Markus Leippold
Professor of Financial Engineering and SFI Senior Chair
University of Zurich
Markus Leippold is a professor at the University of Zurich, renowned for his research in sustainable finance and artificial intelligence integration. He is a Swiss Finance Institute (SFI) Senior Chair and also holds a position as a research scientist at Google DeepMind. His extensive academic work includes numerous high-impact publications and prestigious awards, underscoring his contributions to the field.
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Mete Soner
Norman John Sollenberger Professor and Chair of the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Princeton University
Mete is the Chair of Princeton’s Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering and also affiliated with the Bendheim Center of Finance and with the Program in Applied & Computation Mathematics. Previously, he was a professor of mathematics and the Chair of the department at ETH Zürich and also taught at Carnegie Mellon, as well as Sabanci and Koc Universities in Istanbul.
Mete's research focuses on decisions under uncertainty and related problems in stochastic optimal control, Markov decision processes, nonlinear partial differential equations, probability theory, mathematical finance and financial economics.
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