Gianluca de Nard

Gianluca De Nard, PhD, currently serves as the Head of Quantitative Research at OLZ AG, a Swiss quantitative asset management firm, and has extensive experience in academia and the finance sector. Gianluca holds a position as a Senior Quantitative Research Analyst at the Volatility and Risk Institute at NYU Stern and lectures in Empirical Finance and Portfolio Management at the University of Zurich. Past roles include a postdoctoral researcher at Yale School of Management, research associate at SFI Swiss Finance Institute, and various positions centered around quantitative asset management and financial econometrics. Gianluca holds multiple degrees, including a PhD in Finance from the University of Zurich and an MSc in Quantitative Finance from ETH Zürich.