What Will Markets Look Like in a Post-COVID-19 World?

Lars Christensen is an internationally renowned Danish economist specialised in international economy, Emerging Markets and monetary policy. Lars has over 20 years’ experience in government and banking. He is the owner and founder of the economic advisory Markets and Money Advisory. In addition he is a Research Associate at Stellenbosch University. Lars also is a member of the advisory board member of Life + Liberty Indexes.

He is responsible for establishing and providing leadership to the global team in creating a platform ESG (environmental, social and governance) research capability and supporting sustainable investment solutions across the firm.

Prior to joining BlackRock in 2018, Andre was Director of Research at Quotient Investors, developing and managing sustainable investment strategies. His work in quantitative research and product development spanned roles with the Industrial Bank of Japan, DLIBJ, Innovest and Barra in San Francisco, New York and London. Andre holds an MBA in Finance from UC Berkeley, a Masters in Engineering from UC Berkeley, and a BS from Virginia Tech.

Tony Guida is executive director – senior quant research at RAM Active Investments. Before this, Tony was a senior investment manager in quantitative equity at the investment manager of a major UK pension fund in London, where he managed multifactor systematic equity portfolios.

During his career, he held such positions as a senior consultant for smart beta and risk allocation at EDHEC RISK Scientific Beta and senior research and investment committee for Minimum Variance Strategies, where he led the factor investing research group for institutional clients and a regular speaker at quant conferences. Tony is Chair of machineByte ThinkTank EMEA and editor of the Journal of Machine Learning in Finance and also the author of Big Data and Machine Learning in Investment.