Dr. Marcos Lopez de Prado

Dr. Marcos López de Prado is Global Head of Quantitative R&D at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, and Professor of Practice at Cornell University. Over the past 25 years, he has helped modernize finance by pioneering machine learning and statistical inference methods that are now widely adopted at some of the largest investment corporations. The U.S. Congress has invited him to testify on Al policy, he is the named inventor in numerous patents, and the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) ranks him among the 10 most-read authors in Economics. His contributions have earned him several scientific, state, and industry awards. In 2024, His Majesty King Felipe VI and the Government of Spain appointed him Knight Officer of the Royal Order of Civil Merit (OMC), "for distinguished services to science and the global investment industry."