Join us for this event hosted by the Department of Economics as part of the Taysom Economic Scheme.

During this talk, guest speaker Mandy Norton will lead a Q&A discussion to address the rise in popularity of mathematical and statistical techniques in finance, which are becoming ever more important in terms of asset pricing, forecasting, and risk management.

Potential areas for the discussion include careers in the financial sector that benefit from a mathematical or statistical background; and current trends in the types of techniques that are most relevant.

Speaker profile

Mandy Norton is a graduate from the University of Bath and is an accomplished executive with more than 30 years of experience leading independent corporate risk functions and risk oversight activities at global financial institutions.

Recently, she spent four years with Wells Fargo as executive vice president and chief risk officer. She has also held progressively senior risk and finance positions at JPMorgan Chase & Co., Ally Financial, and Bank of America.

Mandy has also recently served on the board of directors for Credit Suisse Group AG until November 2023 and serves on the board of Generation Investment Management LLC, as well as the Royal Bank of Canada.

Her impressive breadth of experience across the financial services industry, partnered with her degree background from her days at Bath, enable Mandy to really demonstrate how numerical and statistical-based degree content can be a great foundation for a career in financial services. Mandy will share her experience, knowledge and guidance on her successes and challenges within global financial institutions and welcome the audience to probe and question to encourage some interesting discussion.