Robert Engle

Nobel Prize-winning Economist

Robert Engle is a co-director of the Volatility and Risk Institute. He was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University in New York, United States.

Misa Tanaka

Head of Research at Bank of England

Misa Tanaka is the Head of Research at the Bank of England, a position she has held since 2018. Misa joined the Bank of England in 2002 following the completion of her D. Phil in Economics at the University of Oxford. She has published articles on the likes of international policy spillovers, bonus regulations and sovereign debt finance. Misa’s current research interests include prudential policies and the impact of climate change on the financial system.

Tony Hughes

Climate Risk Modeller

Dr Tony Hughes is an expert risk modeller and data scientist at Grant Thornton. Tony has over 20 years of experience in industry and academia. Before he joined Grant Thornton he worked as a senior quantitative modeller at Moody’s Analytics for over two decades. At Moody’s, Tony developed market risk models and structural macroeconomic models for use in simulation and scenario development. Tony’s key focus is in climate modelling and ESG, which Tony described as the “greatest quantitative challenge the industry has faced for many decades”.