As Chairman, Charles works with financial institutions and multi-national businesses to anticipate and assess policy agendas and announcements. Areas of expertise include US foreign policy and the implications of the Biden presidency in the US, Europe and Asia. Charles also forecasts global trade policy and energy dynamics.   

Formerly Vice Chairman of Evercore ISI, he was the Founding Partner & Head of their Institutional Equities business. Prior to that, Charles served as Global Head of Equities and Board Member at Fox-Pitt, Kelton. Charles has a BA from Amherst College in Massachusetts and a post-graduate M. Phil degree from Cambridge University in England.

Andrew joined Signum from Eurasia Group where he served as Deputy Head of Research and was also a Director in the firm’s Global Macro practice. Prior to that, Andrew was a senior manager in the World Economic Forum’s strategic foresight and risk analysis unit, during which he regularly participated in the organization’s annual meeting in Davos.

Andrew is Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and actively participates in the Munich Security Conference leadership program. He received his master’s degree from the London School of Economics and ‘SciencesPo. Paris’ and was a fellow at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C.

Jason was a senior member of political risk advisor Eurasia Group. Previous to that, he worked in emerging markets investment strategy at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, and São Paulo. Before entering the financial sector, Jason worked in Washington, DC with Republican policymakers from Kansas.

He is an active member of several industry associations including the CFA Institute and the Society of Quantitative Analysts. Jason holds a BA degree from Tufts University and a Master’s degree in international finance and banking from Columbia University (SIPA).

Pete spent the last 10 years in London establishing and heading up the emerging markets trading team at Somerset Capital Management LLP, where he was responsible for executing multi-billion dollar investment strategies. Prior to this, he served as a hedge fund manager at Horizon Asset Ltd, where he ran an event-driven strategy within the European equities markets.

He received his Bachelor’s degree in Business Studies from Bristol Business School, where he specialized in Investment Management and International Business in Emerging Markets. This is where his passion for both investing and emerging markets started.

Fred moved to Riyadh in 2016 to become Head of Research for HSBC Saudi Arabia and became Head of Investor Relations for Ma’aden in 2020 (Saudi Arabian Mining Company). Most recently he worked for Bank of America in Dubai.

Throughout his career, he has gained exposure to emerging and developed markets, equities, fixed income, FX and ESG investment strategies.

Fred received a Master’s in Finance from London Business School. 

During her successful 25 year career in financial services, Rebeca held senior positions at several leading investment banks including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, HSBC and UBS servicing key global institutional investors. Rebeca’s multidisciplinary approach combines deep understanding of capital markets with unique experience in emerging markets to provide differentiated advisory skills, proven and tested across regions and cycles.

Rebeca is a graduate from Universidad de las Américas, in Mexico where she obtained her BA in International Relations and received her MBA from Cass Business School in London.

Rafael was previously the lead economist at the International Crisis Group and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton’s Empirical Studies of Conflict Program, where he specialized in the nexus of political frictions and macro-financial risk in emerging and debt-distressed economies. He also taught as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at NYU’s Politics Department and Stern School of Business before joining Signum.

Rafael holds a Ph.D. in Politics from NYU, where he specialized on political economy and political risk in Latin America, and was a Fulbright Scholar during his Master’s in Politics at NYU. He has authored numerous policy reports, served as the lead investigator for multilateral development banks’ flagship reports, and published several papers in top-10 economics and political science journals.

Nico previously worked at the Economist Intelligence Unit where he focused on political and economic forecasting, and headed up the firm’s business risk practice. He was also a senior political risk analyst for G4S Risk Consulting.

Nico holds an MSc in International Relations from Bristol University, as well as an MSc in Psychology and a Graduate Diploma in Economics, both from Birkbeck, University of London.

He has established a career partnering with clients, helping them forecast and navigate political and global macro events and trends.

Stefan has over 10 years’ experience supporting clients throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.  He received his Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Leeds Beckett University.  His studies included stints at Columbia University and Georgetown, where he specialized in community polarisation and US politics.  Stefan speaks Spanish and is a competitive CrossFitter.