Big Data and Data Science: New Opportunities in Reporting, Forecasting and Policymaking 2023

Bruno Tissot is the Head of statistics and research support at the BIS and Head of the secretariat of the Irving Fisher Committee on central bank statistics (IFC). He has been working at the BIS since 2001, as Senior economist and Secretary to the markets committee of central banks in the monetary and economic department and then as the Adviser to the general manager and Secretary to the BIS executive committee. Between 1994 and 2001 he worked for the French Ministry of Finance. He is currently Head of BIS statistics and research support and is a graduate from École Polytechnique (Paris) and of the French Statistical Office INSEE.

Julapa Jagtiani joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia as a special advisor in the Supervision, Regulation, and Credit Department in 2008. In this role, she has conducted research and participated in or led several supervisory policy and implementation projects, including CCAR stress testing, recovery and resolution plans, and Basel II qualification reviews for large and complex financial institutions, with a focus on the use of quantitative methods and models for risk management. She is also a fellow member of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center and a Central Bank Research Fellow at the Bank for International Settlements. A career highlight has been contributing to the discussion around the potential impacts of fintech and considerations for shaping future fintech regulations that protect consumers and encourage innovation. 

Previously, Jagtiani was a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Banks of Kansas City and Chicago. Before joining the Federal Reserve System in 1998, she was associate professor of finance at Baruch College and assistant professor of finance at Syracuse University.

Jagtiani has made significant contributions in the fields of financial institutions, financial markets, and bank supervision and regulation. She publishes research in top finance journals, organizes conferences to connect regulators with academics and industry leaders, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and forums. Her research areas include banking policy-related issues, including too big to fail, systemic risk and financial stability, Basel II capital regulations, mergers and acquisitions, mortgages and home equity issues, and credit risk models and management. Her more recent research has focused on issues related to fintech, use of alternative data and AI/ML in credit decisions, small business lending, and community bank mergers.

Jagtiani has been active in the community and has served on the board of directors and finance committees at various organizations, including the Leadership Council Board of Directors for the American Red Cross, the Center for Practical Bioethics, and the Parents Council at Johns Hopkins University; she also belongs to the Union League of Philadelphia. Jagtiani has a Ph.D. in finance and an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business, where she held the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship.

David Jamieson Bolder is currently head of the World Bank Group's (WBG) model-risk function. Prior to this appointment, he provided analytic support to the Bank for International Settlements' (BIS) treasury and asset-management functions and worked in quantitative roles at the Bank of Canada, the World Bank Treasury, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He has authored numerous papers, articles, and chapters in books on financial modelling, stochastic simulation, and optimization. He has also published a comprehensive book on fixed-income portfolio analytics. His career has focused on the application of mathematical techniques towards informing decision-making in the areas of sovereign-debt, pension-fund, portfolio-risk, and foreign-reserve management.

Juri Marcucci holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California, San Diego. His doctoral thesis was on financial econometrics, under the supervision of Professor Robert Engle (winner of the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences) and it focused on the predictive ability of Regime-Switching GARCH models and common features in volatility. He lectured at the University of Bologna, and Tor Vergata University of Rome and he is currently lecturing a course on “Data-Driven Economics” at the Sapienza University of Rome. He has been visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, University of California San Diego and Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is the organizer of the Italian Summer School of Econometrics on behalf of the Italian Econometric Association (SIDE). He has been the Bank of Italy’s member of the Big Data Committee at the Italian National statistical institute. He has been guest editor of the journals Econometrics and the International Journal of Forecasting. He is co-organizing a series of webinars on Applied Machine Learning, Economics, and Data Science (AMLEDS).

He has worked at the Bank of Italy since 2004 where he has coordinated the task force on Big Data and Machine Learning since 2016. He is now working in the Research Data Center and Innovation Lab in the DG Economics, Statistics and Research. His research interests are on Big Data, Text Mining, forecasting and applied econometrics.

His work appeared in the J. of Econometrics, International J. of Forecasting, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, J. of Economics and Business, J. of International Financial Markets, Institution & Money, International Review of Financial Analysis.

Academia and work areas. BA Degree in Computer Science, Summa cum Laude; Postgraduate degrees in Functional Analysis, Analysis and System Design, Digital Transformation (MIT). Her work areas include Payment Systems, IT, Cybersecurity, technological innovation and Fintechs, in both regulatory and operational aspects. She is also very active in financial inclusion and financial education.

Professional life. Since 1981, she worked in the private banking sector for 11 years in the IT area. She joined the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic in January 1996 in the Systems and Technology Department.

In January 2006 she was appointed Director of the new Department of Payment Systems, which, among other functions, coordinated the Reform Project of the Payment System of the Dominican Republic (SIPARD), including the implementation of Instant Payments nationwide. Also, was the leader in the process of the interconnection of the national payment systems of the Central America countries (SIPA), a network for cross-border payments that went live in 2011.

She is currently Deputy Manager of Systems and Technological Innovation, supervising the Departments of Payment Systems, Systems and Technology, and Cyber and Information Security (Department that she was instructed to create and develop in 2018). As such, is the promoter of the national legal framework for cybersecurity in the financial sector, and the creation of a cyber incident response center for this sector (Financial CSIRT). Also, she has recently managed several projects involving big data and risk management.

Locally, Ms. Herrera is a member of the National Table for Digital Economy, hosted by the Ministry of the Presidency, where the Central Bank has two important projects: the Financial Innovation HUB, and the National Strategy for Financial Inclusion. Besides, she represents the Governor of the Central Bank at the National Cybersecurity Council.

Michael is a Director at PwC where he leads the AI and FinTech Practice. He is an AI Thought Leader & FinTech Veteran with 17 years of international experience having run client engagements on five continents. 

He spent more than a decade leading engagements with Fortune 500 companies before then disrupting that space with innovative solutions after his Executive MBA at London Business School. 

Michael has a broad background across blue chip names such as Morgan Stanley & Moody’s as well as a range of smaller innovative AI Firms.

Aside from his day job he also takes a keen interest in understanding the latest in innovation by helping AI firms to scale and has been a Mentor and Judge for organisations like Startup Bootcamp, Virgin Money Startup, Cocoon Network, Level 39 and MIT IIC for the last 9 years.

As a well-known Expert in his field, Michael acts as keynote speaker at international conferences and guest lecturer at a number of business schools including London Business School, Mannheim Business School, IMC and others. 

His “AI in Financial Services” PwC study (with 150 participating experts) was released on May 11 2020 and the “AI Book” to which he contributed as Co-Author was released in print on May 13 2020. 

Many of Michael’s other articles, past speaking engagements and contributions in regards to AI & FinTech are available via his LinkedIn profile.

Rebekah O'Toole heads up the Bank of England’s Big Data Platform service.  She led a multi-disciplinary team in the detailed design of the operating model for the Big Data Platform, and has overseen its implementation into a live operational service. 

Prior to her appointment at the Bank of England, she was a Director at a Consultancy with over 20 years' experience in delivering large/complex transformational change programmes. Leading engagements with FTSE100 companies and central and local government.

Rebekah has an MBA and specialises in business change management.

Clare is the Delivery Manager for the Bank of England's big data platform. Clare leads a team of Delivery Partners to ingest data onto the Bank’s new Data & Analytics Platform, working with users to define requirements and oversee all aspects of the on-boarding journey. Clare also helps to deliver continuous improvements in user experience & platform functionality, as well as implementing the relevant governance processes to ensure proper usage of the platform.

Prior to her current role, Clare was a key member responsible for leading the design and delivery of the Bank’s first big data platform and the new platform that has since gone into production. Clare started her career as a junior programmer developing the Bank’s Real Time Gross Settlement service, the infrastructure that holds accounts for banks, building societies and other institutions. During her career Clare has worked her way up to Senior Tech lead roles before settling into a Delivery Manager role.

Clare has over 20 years of experience in delivering technology solutions to enable the Bank of England's business users to derive better insights from their data.

Per Nymand-Andersen has over 25 years of Central Banking Experiences and was part of creating and developing the European Central Bank from scratch. Per has developed his expertise in banking and financial markets, fintech, data science, communications, securities settlement systems, statistics and Management.

Per holds several Fintech/data science Advisor Board positions in private and simi-public organisations. Per is a Lecture at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and is a frequent speaker at international events and author of several publications/articles regarding financial markets, data science, communication and statistics. His recent renown book “Data science in Economics and Finance for Decision Makers” was published by Riskbooks.com.

Prior to joining the ECB, he provided market research consultancy services for the European Commission, Luxembourg.

Per has an MBA in Economics and Management Science from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and has a Fintech certificate from Harvard University.

Per speaks four languages (English, German, French and Danish).

Further details: https://www.linkedin.com/in/per-nymand-andersen-81609913