Maximilian Ahrens
University of OxfordMax Ahrens is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Oxford University, specialising in machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) for economics. He also is a Co-Principal Investigator at the Alan Turning Institute for his research grant on Narrative Detection & Analysis. Max is the founder and chair of the conference on NLP for Social Data Science (NLP SoDaS). Prior to his doctoral studies, Max obtained an MPhil in Economics from Oxford University and worked at McKinsey and the ECB.
Shira Buzaglo-Baris
Bank of IsraelA research economist at the monetary division at the Bank of Israel research department.
Interested in topics regarding labor market, inequality, wage and inflation.
Julapa Jagtiani
Federal Reserve Bank of PhiladelphiaJulapa Jagtiani is Senior Economic Advisor and Economist at the FRB Philadelphia. She is also Central Bank Research Fellow at the BIS. At the Fed, Dr. Jagtiani has participated and led several supervisory policy projects – most recently, focusing on fintech innovations and related activities. Her influential research papers have been published in top journals. Julapa received her MBA and PhD in Finance from NYU Stern School of Business, where she held the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship.
Simona Malovaná
Czech National BankSimona Malovaná is Director of the Financial Research Division at the Czech National Bank. She holds a PhD from Charles University in Prague.
Her fields of interest include financial stability, macroprudential and monetary policy, economic modeling, wealth and income inequality, as well as climate risks.
Lucas Mariani
ERSA and University of Milano-BicoccaLucas Mariani holds a PhD in Economics from the University of North Carolina, a Masters degree from the University of Sao Paulo, and a bachelor’s degree from the Sao Paulo School of Economics. He has been a Policy Associate at Economic Research Southern Africa and a Research Fellow at the University of Milano-Bicocca since 2021. His research interests include and draw together finance, development economics, and firm dynamics, especially the effects of fintech usage and financial development.
