Sean Dong

Sean Dong has extensive work experience in the finance industry. Sean is currently employed at Marshall Wace as the Head of Macro and Portfolio Manager. Prior to this role, they worked as a Vice President at The D. E. Shaw Group for six years. Sean also has experience in academia, having completed a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University, where their dissertation focused on asset pricing with frictions. Additionally, Sean has held summer associate positions at MKP Capital Management, J.P. Morgan, UBS Investment Bank, and HSBC.

Sean Dong earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Math and Applied Math, with a focus on Theoretical Physics, from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where they studied from 2008 to 2012. Sean then went on to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree at Princeton University. At Princeton, they first studied Operations Research & Financial Engineering from 2012 to 2013, and later specialized in Economics at the Bendheim Center for Finance from 2013 to 2017.