Speaker Profile: Dr Ansgar Walther

Dr Ansgar Walther is Associate Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School, a Research Affiliate at the CEPR and a member of the Finance Theory Group.

Ansgar's research and expertise lie in Financial Economics, Macroeconomics, Digitization and Machine Learning in Finance. His research has won awards such as the Econometric Society Prize, the Brattle Prize for best paper on corporate finance and the Wharton-WRDS award for best empirical finance paper at the WFA Conference, amongst others. At Imperial, Ansgar teaches courses on Big Data in Finance, as well as engaging in executive education on AI and Machine Learning in finance, and has recently secured an ERC grant worth nearly €2million euros to pursue a five year research project into Financial Stability and Inclusion in the Age of AI.