Alberto Gallo, CFA

Alberto Gallo is the Chief Investment Officer and Co-founder at Andromeda Capital Management. Prior to that, Alberto initiated and ran the Global Credit Opportunities fund at Algebris Investments (2016-2022). Previously he ran macro credit research at RBS in London (2011-2016), and served in senior research roles at Goldman Sachs in New York (2008-2011), Bear Stearns in New York and London (2007-2008) and Merrill Lynch in London (2004-2007). 

Alberto is a CFA charterholder. He earned an MSc in Economics two years ahead of the norm, cum laude, from Bocconi University (2004), where he is now a guest professor in macroeconomics, at the SDA Bocconi School of Management. He has served on the ECB working group for financial stability for nearly ten years. 

He previously served in the Navy at the “F. Morosini” Naval Academy in Venice, Italy, where he led the 1997-2000 cadet class and was a national track & field athlete. 

Anna Shiel

Anna leads the investment team that invests and manages our portfolio with Jeremy Rogers. She is a member of the Investment Committee and Executive Committee. She joined Better Society Capital in 2012. Over the past ten years, she has helped shape BSC’s strategy and make investments which have grown the UK social impact investment market twelve-fold to almost £11bn. Within this, she led on developing a number of segments of this market including social property funds, blended finance, place-based investment and community finance. Prior to joining, Anna had over ten years of experience in investment and strategy, working in Merrill Lynch’s Financial Institutions Group. She was a Board member of Charity Bank between 2014 and 2022 and is now a member of Access’ Blended Finance Investment Committee and the Local Access Blended Investment Committee.

Calvin Bailey MBE MP

Calvin Bailey MBE MP is the Labour Member of Parliament for the London constituency of Leyton and Wanstead. Calvin was born in Zambia and grew up in London.  

Calvin joined the Royal Air Force for a career of over 24 years, rising to the rank of Wing Commander. During his military service, he led humanitarian efforts and operations in conflict zones and was awarded his MBE for support of relief operations in Haiti and the Philippines.  

Calvin has a crucial role as a member of the Defence Select Committee and chairs Parliament's APPGs on the Armed Forces Community and on Prostate Cancer. He is a graduate of the Franco-British Council Young Leaders Programme and a strong supporter of deepening engagement with European allies. 

Calvin is a Parliamentary Champion for the Labour African Network and the UK's Trade Envoy to Southern Africa, including Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zambia.  

Danny Vroegop

Danny is the Co-Founder of Colesco and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer. He also chairs both the Managing Board and the Investment Committee.

Within Colesco, Danny’s primary deal focus lies with the UK based PE sponsor community and at a firm level investment management oversight, executive HR, general management, compliance, legal, and risk management.

Danny has almost thirty years of experience in debt origination and execution. Prior to establishing Colesco, he was Global Head of Leveraged Finance and Sponsor Origination at Rabobank. He held several other notable positions at Rabobank such as Head of Sponsor Origination, Head of Leveraged Finance Origination (Europe), and executive director positions involving the execution of leveraged finance transactions and coverage of large cap companies. Danny started his career as a strategy consultant in the Rabobank Group Strategy and E-commerce teams.

Danny holds an Executive MBA from IMD and an MSc in International Finance from the University of Amsterdam.

Georg Inderst

Georg Inderst is an independent adviser to pension funds, institutional investors and international organizations, based in London. He is a member of various investment and advisory committees. He authored key studies on infrastructure investment and real assets, as well as social, green and development finance, working among others, with the OECD, World Bank, ADB, EIB, EBRD, EC, and various asset owners. 

Georg has extensive experience in research, investment management and governance. Previous roles included: Economist at HYPO Group in Munich; Head of Global Asset Allocation and Fixed Income at Foreign & Colonial (F&C); Director of Law Debenture Pension Trust Corporation in London. 

Greg Davies

Greg B Davies, PhD, is a globally recognised expert in behavioural finance, decision science, and the use of technology to support better long-term decisions. He helps individuals and organisations by aligning what is financially right with what is emotionally comfortable, supported by tools that make decisions clearer and easier to sustain.

In 2006, Greg founded the first behavioural finance team in global banking as Head of Behavioural Quant Finance at Barclays. He is now Head of Behavioural Finance at Oxford Risk, where he leads the development of behavioural tools, financial personality profiling, and AI-driven systems that improve decisions at scale.

He holds a PhD from Cambridge, has lectured at LSE and Imperial, and spoken on six continents for leading banks, hedge funds, regulators, and family offices.

Greg is co-author of Behavioral Investment Management and creator of two online courses: The Art of Behavioural Investing and Behavioural Data Behind Financial Decisions. He is also the host of Pour Better Decisions, a CPD-certified behavioural wine tasting event that combines live psychology experiments with the science of better choices.

Gurneet Sehmbhi, CFA

Gurneet Sehmbhi leads private equity and venture capital fund selection at multi-family office Stanhope Capital, responsible for the Firm’s origination and due diligence of buyout, secondaries and venture capital funds in the U.S. and Europe. As part of that role, she invests Stanhope’s discretionary commingled vehicles and advises non-discretionary clients on their private equity allocations. The client base is a mix of ultra-high-net-worths, high-net-worths and institutional clients.  

Prior to Stanhope, Gurneet worked at the global investment consultant Mercer, where she focused on diligencing European private equity funds and co-investments for Mercer’s advisory clients and discretionary vehicles.  

She started her career at boutique private equity advisory firm Altius Associates that was responsible for advising and managing the private equity programs of some of the largest institutional investors across the UK, the US, Australia and Japan.  

Gurneet is an Economics graduate from the University of Warwick and a CFA Charterholder.  

Helen Jewell, CFA

Helen Jewell, CFA, is the International CIO for BlackRock Fundamental Equities (FE). Prior to this this role, Ms. Jewell was Global Director of Research for FE, systematically connecting BlackRock’s investors and developing the use of alternative data in investment processes.

Before joining BlackRock, Helen was Deputy Director of Research at Goldman Sachs. Ms. Jewell earned a BA degree in Mathematics from Oxford University.

Ian McKnight

Ian McKnight is Chief Investment Officer at Tontine Trust, Senior Adviser at Cartwright Pension Trusts and holds a number of other advisory roles covering alternative asset managers.  He is also an NED, has chaired a company board and sits on the Board and Investment Committees of a number of charities.  He has 27 years of investment experience, as an institutional investment consultant at WTW, LCP, Morgan Stanley and KMPG as well as having spent over 13 years as CIO of the deca-billion Royal Mail Pension Plan, where he achieved consistently stellar investment performance for over 100,000 postal workers.  He is convinced of a future built around tokenised onchain finance backed by hard currency, which has fed into the infrastructure of the Tontine Trust platform and offering.  He enjoys politics, skiing, playing piano, reading the puerile humour of Viz magazine, car maintenance and has performed professionally as "Noel Coward” at private parties, but he does not "also cook”.  He is a passionate advocate for social mobility initiatives. 

Jason Hsu

Jason Hsu is the founder and chairman of Rayliant Global Advisors. Throughout his accomplished career, Jason’s commitment to academic rigor and investor advocacy have led him to research, develop, and bring to market investment strategies that create significant value for investors. At Rayliant, Jason is continuing that commitment by educating investors and offering products to transform the investment ecosystem in Asia and beyond. Prior to his current role, Jason was the co-founder and vice chairman of Research Affiliates.  Jason also serves on the Advisory Council of CFA Institute's Financial Analysts Journal.

Jason is at the forefront of the smart beta revolution and is one the world’s most recognized thought leaders in that space. Building on his pioneering work on the RAFI™ Fundamental Index™ approach to investing with Rob Arnott in 2005, he has published numerous articles on the topic, notably his articles “A Survey of Alternative Equity Index Strategies,” which won a 2011 Graham and Dodd Scroll Award and the Readers’ Choice Award from CFA Institute; and “The Surprising Alpha from Malkiel’s Monkey and Upside-Down Strategies,” which won the 2013 Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award for Outstanding Paper in the Journal of Portfolio Management. In 2015, Jason received the Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Outstanding Article Award for “A Study of Low-Volatility Portfolio Construction Methods” published in the Journal of Portfolio Management. He has twice received the William F. Sharpe Award for Best New Index Research (2005 and 2013), which is awarded by Institutional Investor Journals. 

Jason is a member of the board of directors at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, as well as a professor in finance. For his service to UCLA’s Anderson School, he received the 2009 Outstanding Service Award. He has also held visiting professorships at Tsinghua University, Kyoto University and Taiwan National Chengchi University. 

Jason has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed articles. He is an associate editor for Journal of Investment Management, and also serves on the editorial board for several publications including Journal of Index Investing, Journal of Investment Consulting, and Journal of Investment Management. 

Jason graduated with a BS (summa cum laude) in physics from the California Institute of Technology, was awarded an MS in finance from Stanford University, and earned his Ph.D. in finance from UCLA, where he conducted research on the equity premium, business cycles, and portfolio allocations. 

Joe McDonell, CFA

Joe joined Border to Coast Pensions Partnership in January 2023 and leads its 100+ strong investment, research, and responsible investment team. He has extensive investment experience on behalf of pension schemes, formerly as Managing Director Head of Portfolio Solutions at Neuberger Berman, where he focused on designing and overseeing multi-asset mandates, engaging with strategic partners and identifying solutions for clients. Previously he spent ten years managing LGPS clients at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, as well as roles managing the internal asset management business for Shell and IBM’s pension funds. Joe is Trustee and member of the Investment Committee of Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity.

John Normand, CFA

John Normand is Head of Investment Strategy for AustralianSuper, the country’s largest superannuation fund and one of the largest private pension funds in the world. He focuses on asset allocation across public and private markets, and is based in London.  
 
Before joining the Fund, he spent 24 years at J.P. Morgan, where he was Head of Research for Currencies, International Bonds, Commodities, and Cross-Asset Strategy. He was ranked in Institutional Investor surveys for over a decade, and was named First Team eleven times across three categories (Macro Strategy, Cross-Asset Strategy, Currencies). Prior to his career at J.P. Morgan, he worked in global bond strategy at UBS Asset Management and in Latin American economics research at the World Bank. 
 
He holds degrees from Georgetown (BA in Economics), Princeton (MPA in Economics & Public Policy), and London School of Economics (MSc in Philosophy & Public Policy). He is also a CFA charterholder.

Jonathan Matthews, CFA

Jonathan Matthews, CFA is Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Fyva: a Machine Analyst platform employing first-principles thinking to create new insights from the ground up, emulating the systematic process of a human investor. Jonathan started his career in 1998 in Investment Banking before moving to the Buy-side as an Investment Analyst, covering Global Energy. Since 2010 he has worked as a EAFE Portfolio Manager and in Leadership, most recently as Head of European Equity Research at T. Rowe Price. 

Joy Adams

Joy Adams is a results-driven executive with over 20 years of experience spanning finance, technology, public policy, and strategic communications. She has a proven track record of leading large-scale projects and driving significant operational and cultural transformations. Currently, she serves as the Chief Operating Officer for Digital Assets Transformation at Deutsche Bank in London, bringing expertise in digital innovation, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance to the financial services industry.

Prior to this, as Head of Information Security Business Advisory, Joy oversaw a multi-million-pound business unit budget and managed a wide-ranging portfolio of strategic projects. She was instrumental in a major Google Cloud transformation, successfully aligning over +500 key stakeholders and control owners. She also conceived and led a global awareness campaign that reached approximately 12,000 individuals, driving a 150% increase in internal data sharing platform adoption.

Joy was an "Intrapreneur" at Deutsche Bank, one of 40 individuals chosen from over 400 applicants. She co-founded a startup within the organisation and secured €75,000 in funding after successfully pitching to the Bank’s CEO and Management Board. This experience honed her ability to apply design thinking and agile "lean start-up" methodologies to innovate new business models.

Earlier career highlights include a role as Head of Internal Communications for Europe at Travelers UK, where her efforts resulted in 92% of employees feeling they had enough options for information within just eight months. At Deutsche Bank, she was the editor of a daily briefing for over 4,000 employees. In the public sector, she managed a $2 million portfolio of Community Development Block Grants for the City of South San Francisco and increased returning online users by 119%.

Joy holds a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School and a B.A. in Political Science from Point Loma Nazarene University. A dedicated lifelong learner, she is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), has completed the Oxford Fintech Programme, and is a Money 20/20 Rise Up alum. Her commitment to her community is demonstrated through her volunteer work as a Patron for the Serpentine Galleries and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

 

Laura Hillis

As Managing Director, Responsible Investment at the Church of England Pensions Board, Laura is responsible for leading and overseeing stewardship, responsible investment integration, and policy engagement on sustainability issues.

Her experience spans nearly two decades of work across banking, insurance and investment focused on climate, nature, human rights and governance issues. She previously served on the Steering Committee for Climate Action 100+ and led the rollout of the initiative in Australia in its inaugural phase. She currently serves on the board of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change and chairs its corporate engagement programme. 

Laura holds a Master of Studies in Sustainability Leadership from the University of Cambridge where she focused her research on mobilising institutional investment in climate finance.

Paul Moody

Paul Moody is Managing Director, Global Partnerships & Client Solutions, as part of the leadership team at CFA Institute. He is responsible for Marketing and Client Experience plus Society and Membership globally. With regional responsibilities in APAC for the CFA Institutes offices in India and China. Partnering with 158 societies globally, ensuring the voice of the customer is embedded into day-to-day operations at CFA Institute. Prior to joining CFA Institute in early 2022, Paul worked at Aviva Investors for 21 years, with his last role being Client Solutions Director. In that capacity, he led a global team, developing relationships and partnering with Aviva1s global businesses to benefit both shareholder and policyholder funds, including pathways to Net Zero. Paul has deep experience in product and business development in the asset management industry and was one of the pioneers of the UK1s first ESG fund products. Paul holds the Alternative Investment Analyst Charter (CAIA) and a degree in economics from the University of Wolverhampton. Paul is based in London and is married with two children. 

Pilar Gomez-Bravo, CFA

Pilar Gomez‐Bravo, CFA, is co‐chief investment officer of Fixed Income at MFS Investment Management® (MFS®). As co‐CIO, she has joint oversight of MFS’ global fixed income team and works collaboratively with MFS’ investment leadership team to ensure its fixed income investors have the tools and skill sets necessary to serve the firm’s clients globally. She is also a fixed income portfolio manager with oversight of the firm's Global Aggregate and Global Credit portfolio management teams. She is based in MFS' London office. 

Pilar joined MFS in 2013 as a portfolio manager from Imperial Capital, where she served as a managing director. She was named director of Fixed Income – Europe in 2017 before being named co‐CIO in 2023. She previously served as a portfolio manager and head of research at Negentropy Capital, within Matrix Asset Management, and cofounded Marengo Asset Management. From 2006 through 2010, she served as a senior portfolio manager and head of credit, Europe, for Neuberger Berman. She began her career in financial services at Lehman Brothers in 1997 and spent nine years with the firm, including serving as head of investment‐grade credit research for Europe. 

Pilar earned the equivalent of an LL.B degree in Law and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Business Science from Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE E‐3, Spain). She also earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management. She has held the Chartered Financial Analyst designation since 2000. 

Dr. Prag Sharma

Dr. Prag Sharma is Director at Citi Institute’s Future of Finance, focusing on Emerging Technologies. As one of the distinguished Citi Tech Fellows globally, Prag is a Subject Matter Expert and the primary driver of Citi Institute’s thought-leadership on cutting-edge technologies, including in Generative and Agentic AI.  

Prag previously led Citi’s Global Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence (AI CoE). The AI CoE led the development of Citi-wide best-practices from a Governance, Risk & Controls and Technology perspective in AI, addressed AI-related infrastructure and tooling needs across the organisation and enabled state-of-the-art AI design, development and use at Citi across all its businesses. Prag has led R&D teams and technology consultants in both industry and academia for over 15 years, working on emerging technologies with start-ups and multinationals in the Financial Services, Health, Technology and Pharmaceutical sectors.  Prag holds a PhD in Machine Learning (Computer Vision) and an MBA, majoring in Innovation. 

Rachel Farrell

Rachel Farrell is currently Director of Public and Private Markets for Nest Corporation and is responsible for the implementation of the Nest investment portfolio across all asset classes. Prior to this, Rachel spent 10 years at JP Morgan Asset Management, most recently as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Country Head of JP Morgan Asset Management Australia, responsible for all of JPMorgan Asset Management's operations in Australia and New Zealand, based in Sydney.

Prior to this, Rachel was JPMAM's Head of Sovereign and Institutional, Asia Pacific ex-Japan, based in Hong Kong, and prior to this Head of Southeast Asia and Australia Sovereign and Institutional based in Singapore. Before joining JPMAM in 2011, she was head of Asia Pacific investor relations and distribution for Citi Capital Advisors, the alternative asset management division of Citigroup and held a number of senior positions in her 12 years at the firm. She was also head of the Global Discretionary Portfolio Management Team for Bankers Trust Switzerland AG and a member of the Global Investment Committee. 

Shelley Morrison

Shelley Morrison leads the strategy for Fund Finance at Aberdeen Investments, investing institutional capital into fund finance loan facilities. She has extensive experience in the origination, structuring and execution of fund level debt facilities across multiple asset classes. She has been with Aberdeen since 2019. Before joining Aberdeen, Shelley was a Director in the Fund Finance team at RBS for 6 years. Prior to that, she worked in structured asset finance at RBS and Lloyds for 10 years, with a focus on commercial ship finance. Shelley holds the both the IMC and CISI certificate in Corporate Finance and the CFA Certificate in ESG Investing. Shelley sits on the Fund Finance Association EMEA Executive Committee and Women in Fund Finance Committee. Shelley received a first class MA (honours) degree in Geography and an MSc in Social and Political Theory, both from the University of Edinburgh.

Stephen Beer

Stephen is Head of Responsible Investment Strategic Relationships and Integration Strategy at Legal & General Asset Management. He is responsible for developing integration of responsible investment across L&G’s asset management business, while maintaining and growing L&G’s reputation as a leader in responsible investment through its strategic alliances. He is also responsible for L&G’s framework for net zero aligned funds and has managed L&G’s Climate Impact Pledge which assesses over 5,000 companies. Stephen is a member of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) steering group and is a member of the Advisory Group of the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative (NZAM) and the Sustainable Market Initiative (SMI) Asset Manager Asset Owner Taskforce. 

Stephen’s career in responsible investment spans over 30 years, focusing on responsible investing for pension schemes and charities, including as Chief Investment Officer and Head of Ethics for the Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church and Epworth Investment Management, and as an equity and bond portfolio manager. He is Chair of the Church Investors Group, an institutional investor organisation focused on ethical investment, and co-chairs an endowment investment committee. He writes and speaks on responsible investment and also, in a personal capacity, on economic policy. 

Steven Major

Steven Major is completing his fourth decade in financial markets and continues to approach the work with enthusiasm and curiosity. Research has afforded him the rare combination of being both analyst and lifelong student—constantly learning through engagement with clients, collaboration with colleagues, and ongoing independent study. 

He spent 24 highly rewarding years at HSBC, where he led a global team of credit and rates analysts covering both emerging and developed markets. His core expertise lies in the global rates market, an area in which—supported by HSBC’s clients and colleagues—his team consistently achieved top industry rankings over many years. During his tenure at the firm, he also chaired the Macro Strategy Committee, which brought together the global heads of Economics, Foreign Exchange, and Emerging Markets to shape the bank’s overarching macro research agenda. 

Sue Noffke

Sue Noffke is Head of UK Equities at Schroders and works alongside a team of 12 UK equity investors who collectively oversee £16.2bn of assets. She has spent 36 years at Schroders and founded the Prime UK Equity team in 2006. The fourstrong Prime team manages £6.7bn of assets in styleneutral portfolios. Sue has been manager of the Schroder Income Growth investment trust since 2010. Having begun her career as an analyst in 1989, Sue has managed UK equity portfolios for institutional clients for over three decades. 

Tom Coutts

Tom is a partner at Baillie Gifford, the multi-generational investment partnership based in Edinburgh. He joined Baillie Gifford in 1999 and leads the International Growth strategy, which was established in 2003, investing in exceptional growth companies based outside the US. He sits on the firm’s Strategy group and its Equity Investment Risk Committee, and was formerly Chief of Investment Staff. He is a member of the Council of the Long Now Foundation, an organisation whose mission is to foster long-term thinking. 

William Nicoll

Will became Chief Investment Officer in September 2025 having formerly been Head of Fixed Income and Private Assets. Will joined Royal London Asset Management in October 2023.
Previously, Will was at M&G Investment Management for 19 years, latterly as CIO, Private and Alternative Assets, responsible for managing global teams investing in private debt, property, and private equity as well as other businesses. Will has also worked at Henderson Global Investors, Cazenove & Co and the civil service.

Yves Choueifaty

Yves Choueifaty is the founder of TOBAM (Think out of the box Asset Management) and the creator of the Maximum Diversification® and LBRTY™ approaches. TOBAM also launched the world first open-ended fund invested in Bitcoin in 2017. Before founding TOBAM in 2005, he was the CEO of Credit Lyonnais Asset Management (CLAM) and held senior roles in investment management and financial engineering. Yves is a strong advocate for human rights and a recognized leader in asset management, earning awards such as "CIO of the Year" in 2015 and "Asset Management Leader of the Year" in 2016. He is also a board member of the Saint-Joseph University foundation in Lebanon, a board member of the MIDEL (Association of Lebanese businessmen and women) . He is a member of the Paris Committee of Human Rights Watch since 2019.MrChoueifaty graduated from ENSAE and is a mathematician by training.

Ben Ashby

Ben Ashby is the Chief Investment Officer of Henderson Rowe, the European subsidiary of Rayliant Global Advisors. Ben also serves as Head of Fixed Income for Rayliant itself.

Previously, Ben was a Managing Director with JPMorgan’s Chief Investment Office, which handles the Group’s own investments.

He is also a board member of the Centre for Financial History at the University of Cambridge, and he co-hosts the CFA UK’s “Future Proofing Finance” podcast.

Ben regularly appears in the media and has published articles for Bloomberg, Nikkei and Citywire, amongst others.

Dan Philps, CFA

Gillian Tett, OBE

In 2023, Gillian Tett was elected to serve as Provost to King’s College, Cambridge.

Gillian also writes weekly columns covering economic, financial, political, and social issues for the US Financial Times and is the co-founder of FT Moral Money, a newsletter that tracks the ESG revolution in business and finance.

From 2013 to 2019, Tett was the FT’s US Managing Editor, also serving as Assistant Editor for the FT’s markets coverage, Capital Markets Editor, Deputy Editor of the Lex column, Tokyo Bureau Chief and Correspondent, London-based economics reporter and a reporter in Russia and Brussels.

Before joining the FT, Gillian was awarded a PhD in Social Anthropology from Cambridge and in 2024, was awarded an OBE for her services to journalism.