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Prof. Dr. Jörg Robert Osterrieder, Professor of Sustainable Finance, Bern Business School and Associate Professor of Finance and Artificial Intelligence, University of Twente

Joerg Osterrieder is Associate Professor of Finance and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, Professor of Sustainable Finance at Bern Business School in Switzerland, and Advisor on Artificial Intelligence to the ING Group’s Global Data Analytics Team. He has more than 15 years of experience in financial statistics, quantitative finance, algorithmic trading, and the digitization of the finance industry.

Joerg is the Chair of the European COST Action 19130 Fintech and Artificial Intelligence in Finance, an interdisciplinary research network comprised of over 200 researchers from 49 countries.

He is the director of studies for an executive education course titled “Blockchain, Machine Learning, and Data Science in Finance” and the primary organizer of a series of annual research conferences on Artificial Intelligence in Finance. He is a founding  associate editor of Digital Finance, editor of Frontiers Artificial Intelligence in Finance, and frequent reviewer for leading academic journals. He also serves as an expert reviewer for the European Commission’s “Executive Agency for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises” and “European Innovation Council Accelerator Pilot” programs.

In close collaboration with the Finance industry, he has led or co-led over thirty national and international research projects on a wide range of quantitative, data-driven topics over the past few years.

Previously he worked as an executive director at Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch, as quantitative analyst at AHL as well as a member of the senior management at Credit Suisse Group. Joerg is now active at the intersection of academia and industry, focusing on the implementation of research results in the financial services industry.