Geopolitical & Global Market Risk Speakers
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Co-hosted by Morgan Stanley
Held at Morgan Stanley, 1585 Broadway, 41st Floor, New York, NY
Friday, October 6, 2017
Speakers:
Charlie Brummitt
Research Associate, Harvard; Senior Data Scientist, Catalant Technologies
Charlie Brummitt is a data scientist at Catalant Technologies and until recently was a Research Associate at Harvard University. As a postdoc at Columbia and then at Harvard, he studied economic development, complex systems, and machine learning. In collaboration with Matthew Bonds (Harvard Medical School) and with researchers at the Center for International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School, Charlie built models of economic development using large datasets on economic activity in order to uncover stylized facts in datasets too high-dimensional for humans to grasp on their own. Brummitt is also collaborating on a randomized controlled trial about social networks and entrepreneurship in Africa, in collaboration with economists at Bocconi University. They are testing whether making entrepreneurs' social networks more diverse leads to more innovative business plans. In that project, Charlie built a chat bot that incentivizes people to interact and to give feedback, and he is analyzing large amounts of text data generated in a chatting application to find signals predictive of successful business ideas. Previously, he was a postdoc at Columbia University's Center for the Management of Systemic Risk, and he completed his PhD in applied math at UC Davis, where his thesis adviser was Prof. Raissa D'Souza, an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute.
Mirta Galesic
Santa Fe Institute Professor
Mirta Galesic is Professor and Cowan Chair in Human Social Dynamics at the Santa Fe Institute, and Adjunct Researcher at the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany.
Neil Howe
Hedgeye Risk Management
Neil Howe is a renowned authority on generations and social change in America. An acclaimed bestselling author and speaker, he is the nation's leading thinker on today's generations—who they are, what motivates them, and how they will shape America's future.
Oscar Landerretche
Codelco Chairman of the Board, University of Chile, University of Oxford
Óscar Landerretche is Chairman of the Codelco Board of Directors and professor in the Department of Economics at Universidad de Chile. He studied economics at Universidad de Chile and earned a BSc in Economics. He has a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Philippe Leroux-Martin
U.S. Institute of Peace
Philippe Leroux-Martin is the director rule of law, justice and security at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
He is the author of Diplomatic Counterinsurgency: Lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina (Cambridge University press, 2014). He has been a contributor on BBC World News, BBC Radio, CBC Radio, Al Jazeera, Radio-Canada and the New York Times.
Kevin Allison
Eurasia Group
Kevin Allison is a senior consultant for Eurasia Group, the world’s largest political risk consultancy, where he works on the intersection of technology and geopolitics. Previously, Kevin was a columnist at Breakingviews, Thomson Reuters' financial commentary service, where he covered topics ranging natural resources, to corporate finance, to driverless cars. Before joining Reuters, Kevin covered Silicon Valley for the Financial Times and wrote for the FT’s influential Lex column. He also worked on the sell side at UBS. Kevin's work has appeared in the Financial Times, The New York Times DealBook, the International Herald Tribune, The Globe and Mail, and in other major publications around the world. Kevin holds degrees in public policy and biochemistry. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna, Austria and a 2015 Santa Fe Institute journalism fellow.
Simon DeDeo
Carnegie Mellon University and Santa Fe Institute External Professor
Simon DeDeo is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences, and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is also affiliated with the Cognitive Science program at Indiana University, where he runs the Laboratory for Social Minds. For three years, from 2010 to 2013, he was an Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.