Alexander Lipton

Alexander Lipton is Global Head of Quantitative R&D at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Connection Science Fellow at MIT, Visiting Professor and Dean’s Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Co-Founder and Chief Information Officer of Sila, and President of Numeraire Financial. In 2006–2016, Alex was Co-Head of the Global Quantitative Group and Quantitative Solutions Executive at Bank of America. Earlier, he was a senior executive at Citadel, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and Bankers Trust. At the same time, Alex held visiting professorships at EPFL, NYU, Oxford University, Imperial College, and the University of Illinois. Prior to switching to finance, Alex was a Full Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois and a consultant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

In 1984 Alex received the inaugural Best Young Geophysicist Award from the Soviet Academy of Science. In 2000 he was awarded the inaugural Quant of the Year Award and in 2021 the Buy-side Quant of the Year Award by Risk Magazine. Alex authored/edited eleven books and more than a hundred scientific papers on topics from thermonuclear physics to astrophysics to applied mathematics to financial engineering to distributed ledgers. He frequently gives keynote presentations on Quantitative Finance and FinTech at conferences and forums worldwide.