34 year old Avinash Persaud,  Managing Director and Global Head of Research for the Global Markets Group of State Street Bank and Trust Company. in England, one of the world’s leading financial services for institutional investors ( nearly 12% of the world’s securities under custody), is a top ranked analyst in  global surveys of currency research. Persaud has won the major awards in international finance including the Jacques de Larosiere Award from the Institute of International Finance and an Amex Bank Award.

Some career highlights:

During 2000/2001, the first private-sector, Visiting Scholar, of the IMF.

Non-Executive Director of the Overseas Development Institute.

In 1999,  Head of Currency Research at JP Morgan.

Mr Persaud and his Morgan team developed an indicator for currency crashes in emerging markets which predicted a Russian devaluation four months before it occurred and a “regime machine,” which gauged which macro-economic factors and behavioral sentiments were most influencing currency movements at a given point in time.

Graduate of the London School of Economics

Former governor of the LSE as well (19988-1989).

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