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Professor Raman Uppal

Raman Uppal is Professor of Finance at the London Business School. Prior to working at LBS he was at the University of British Columbia and has held visiting positions at the Catholic University in Leuven and at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has also served as Co-Director of the Financial Economics Programme of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).

Professor Uppal’s research focuses on optimal portfolio selection and asset allocation in dynamic environments, valuation of securities in capital markets, risk management, and exchange rates. His research has been published in many leading academic journals, including The Journal of Finance, The Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Journal of International Money and Finance. He is an Editor of The Journal of Banking and Finance, an Advisory Editor of the Review of Finance, and a former editor of The Review of Financial Studies.

Dr. Sebastián Ceria

Dr. Sebastián Ceria is the President and CEO of Axioma, Inc., a private, New York based company providing the financial services industry with advanced optimisation and risk management technology and consulting services.

Before founding Axioma, Dr. Ceria was an Associate Professor of Decision, Risk and Operations at Columbia Business School from 1993 to 1998. Most recently, his work has focused on the area of robust optimization. He has co-authored numerous papers on the topic, including, “Incorporating Estimation Errors into Portfolio Selection: Robust Portfolio Construction,” which was published in The Journal of Asset Management. He also co-authored the chapter, “Robust Optimization,” for the upcoming Oxford Handbook of Quantitative Asset Management.