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Grant Wilson
Based in Sydney, Australia, Grant Wilson has extensive capital markets experience, including real money (Bankers Trust), sovereign wealth (GIC, where he was Global Head of FX/Macro) and hedge funds (Moore Capital and Civic Capital, as Founder & CEO). Grant has informed policy formation in Australia in response to COVID-19, and is a regular contributor to the Australian Financial Review.
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Tor Vollalokken
Based in Barcelona, Spain and Oslo, Norway, Tor Vollalokken has spent his entire professional life in the foreign exchange market, including 15 years with DnB where he was Head of FX in Oslo and later served as a Branch Manger in London, and 25 years as an independent analyst and advisor to hedge funds, sovereigns, fund managers, family offices and energy companies worldwide. Tor has a special focus on Scandinavian currencies.


Head of Alternative Data & CTO
Web Begole
As the lead technical officer of Exante Data, Web Begole oversees data procurement, programmatic analytics and technical infrastructure that power our website and Currency Overlay platforms. Leveraging a background from both creative and technical industries, Web brings innovative approaches and novel analysis to alternative data relevant to current market themes such as our COVID-19 research.
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Chris Marsh
Chris Marsh holds a PhD in international macroeconomics and has worked at the International Monetary Fund and in finance for 15 years. An expert on IMF financial programming, Chris started The General Theorist blog in 2017 which focuses on the intersection between money and the balance of payments. His interests are global macro-financial linkages, central bank balance sheets, debt sustainability, and emerging markets.


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Amelia Bourdeau
Amelia Bourdeau has 17 years of financial market experience. She began her career at the Federal Reserve Board. Amelia held economist and FX strategist roles at Deutsche Bank. Her other strategy work includes being a senior FX Strategist at UBS and at two global macro hedge funds. Amelia was in senior FX Hedge Fund Sales roles at Westpac Bank and UniCredit AG Bank. She was a contributor on CNBC with her own show. Amelia has a M.S. degree from Columbia Journalism School and appears on financial market television.
Head of Political Risk Analysis
Wouter Jongbloed
As Head of Political Risk Analysis, Wouter Jongbloed leads and develops the political and policy risk practice at Exante Data. He pays particular attention to the intersections of US, European and Chinese developments. He came to Exante with extensive experience working in academia and with various law firms. Wouter is a published author with Oxford University Press on a variety of topics including Sovereign Investments, as well as cross-border FDI.


Senior Strategist
Alex Etra
Alex Etra is Senior Strategist at Exante Data responsible for producing analytical insights on global macro trends, cross-border capital flows, FX intervention and global central bank policy for Exante's institutional clients, as well as being major contributor to our Global Flow Analytics platform. Prior to joining Exante Data, Alex spent five years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York advising senior management on sovereign and bank credit risk and foreign central bank activity.