Sebastian Petric, PhD, is an institutional investment professional and quantitative finance researcher with more than a decade of experience across global macro, foreign exchange, emerging markets and asset allocation. He has held senior investment and capital markets roles at LGT, UBS and Raiffeisen Bank International. He holds an MBA from Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Liechtenstein and is a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute. He also studied at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the London School of Economics and completed the CFA and Certificate in Quantitative Finance programs. His work combines professional risk taking, quantitative research and market judgment to translate complex financial regimes into actionable investment decisions.