Bayes Business School Alumni Forum

Antonios, with over 15 years of experience in ESG research, holds a deep specialisation in the global oil and gas sector. He was an Executive Director at MSCI ESG Research until December 2024, spearheading the firm’s climate and ESG ratings strategy for extractives. This involved developing the methodology and making sector-wide ratings decisions.

His work significantly influenced how institutional investors assess transition risk and evaluate ESG leadership in fossil fuel industries. He holds an M.S. in Energy Trade and Finance from Bayes Business School in London and a B.A. degree in International Relations and Law from the University of the Aegean. Antonios has also been appointed as an Honorary Fellow for Bayes Business School in March 2025.

Emily is a PhD student at Bayes and a graduate from the Bayes MSc in Voluntary Sector Management. She started her career in the humanitarian aid sector, before moving into strategy consulting (whilst moonlighting as a social entrepreneur). She then spent ten years in Singapore, where she founded and ran a strategy consultancy focused on the non-profit sector in Southeast Asia.

Most recently, she worked for Amazon as Asia-Pacific Head of corporate philanthropy. In addition to her Bayes MSc, she holds a Master's in Public Policy from Osaka University and an MA in Japanese Studies from Cambridge University.

Katrina joined Evelyn Partners in October 2023 as their new Director of Responsible Investment and has been Head of the team since December 2024. She facilitates the integration of ESG factors across the investment process and directs our active stewardship programme.

She leads her team in delivering relevant central reporting as well as thought leadership content and she spearheads our external approach to responsible investment. Background. On graduating from the University of Oxford in 1994, she began her career at Deutsche Asset Management where she ultimately became a Director of Global Equities.

Katrina then pursued a consulting career with a focus on charities and pension funds, allowing her to develop a specialism in responsible investment and, more recently, climate change.

Lindsey is passionate about tackling inequality to unlock the potential of all children and young people. This passion is central to her leadership at Magic Breakfast, a national charity providing breakfast to more than 300,000 pupils each day to remove hunger as a barrier to learning. With a career that has spanned international development, homelessness, and youth employment services, Lindsey recognises that so many opportunities in life come from education and believes that no child in the UK should be too hungry to learn.

A lover of learning, she achieved her MBA with distinction at Bayes, having previously earned her doctorate at Brunel University. Keen to support social change organisations to understand, evidence, and share their impact Lindsey is Vice Chair of DataKind and of the Sport for Development Coalition.

Marie Diron is global head of Moody’s Sovereign and Sub-Sovereign Risk Group, with responsibility for credit ratings on countries, regional and local governments, public sector entities and multilateral development banks. Marie is also Moody’s Investors Service lead coordinator on ESG monitoring and integration across asset classes.

Marie has worked in various functions at Moody’s in the Sovereign Risk Group and (then) Credit Policy. In particular, she was lead sovereign analyst for a number of Asia Pacific credits including Australia, China, India and some frontier market sovereigns. She then managed the Asia Pacific sovereign team, before expanding her responsibilities to today’s global role. Previously, in Credit Policy, Marie co-ordinated Moody’s Global Macro Outlook and other credit research.

Marie was previously Director at Oxford Economics, leading the company’s forecasting and scenario analysis service to financial sector and corporate clients, after a number of years at the European Central Bank and Brevan Howard LLP. Marie received a MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge and graduated from the Ecole Centrale Paris

Maurizio Zanardi is Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex Business School, where he pursues a research agenda in international trade and political economy. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Boston College (USA) and has held academic positions across Europe, including at the University of Surrey, Lancaster University, and Université Libre de Bruxelles.

His research spans key trade issues, such as antidumping measures, global value chains, and trade-environment linkages, as well as examining how political and social dynamics influence policy design, implementation, and economic behavior. With publications in leading general and field-specific journals, he contributes to both academic debates and broader policy discussions.

An experienced educator and mentor, he supervises Ph.D. students and contributes to the academic community in various capacities, including serving as Co-Director of the European Trade Study Group until recently. He is also a regular commentator on international trade and policy issues for prominent media outlets, reflecting his ability to bridge academic research with practical insights into current events.

Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Finance

I am an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Finance at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, St Georges University of London. Prior to this, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Finance at Judge Business School, the University of Cambridge, where I currently hold an Honorary Associate position.

My research interests lie primarily in the area of empirical asset pricing looking at drivers of market mispricing from both rational and behavioural perspectives. I also actively work on applications of machine learning (ML) in asset management and asset pricing implications of firm environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) performance.

Pieris Pieri is a Portfolio Manager at Allianz Global Investors, where he has been working since 2019. He co-manages a fundamental equity strategy as part of the Global Growth team. Pieris joined Allianz as an Investment Management Graduate Analyst working out of the company’s Frankfurt offices before re-locating to the UK in 2021 to take up his current position.

He holds an MSc Finance (2019) from Bayes Business School, was President of the Bayes Student Trading Society, and is currently a member of the Bayes Business School MSc Finance External Advisory Board.

Riccardo Werther Borghi is a systematic portfolio manager in the Global Markets Trading and Investments division at IMI CIB – Intesa Sanpaolo. He joined from Barclays, where he was vice president in the QIS team, focusing on prod dev for equity strategies. Previously, he worked at Goldman Sachs as executive director in the systematic trading strategies team as single stocks prod dev, and research associate at Macquarie.

Riccardo co-authored the paper “The Artificial Intelligence Approach to Picking Stocks”, in Jurczenko E. (ed) Machine Learning for Asset Management: New Developments and Financial Applications (2020).

He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Finance and Applied Econometrics and a Master of Science in Quantitative Finance from Bayes Business School.

Sarah Dryden is Director of Research at The London Foundation for Banking & Finance (LFBF), where she is responsible for delivering the charity’s financial capability research programme. Sarah is an expert in financial services, having spent nearly a decade working across the industry.

She has extensive experience advising asset and wealth managers on their ESG approaches, as well as wider strategic agendas. Alongside this work in financial services, Sarah is an alumnus of Bayes Business School’s Centre for Charity Effectiveness (CCE).

Shelley is the Chief Executive of The London Foundation for Banking and Finance, an organisation constituted by Royal Charter and a registered charity. Prior to her current role she was a Partner in KPMG’s Wealth and Asset Management consulting practice.  She has over 30 years’ cross-industry experience in leadership, business management and corporate governance, half of which have been within the Financial Services and Banking sector.

Shelley founded her own business in 2000 which she sold in 2005. Since then, she has worked both in house and in a consulting capacity within the Financial Services sector.  Prior to Financial Services she worked in Telecoms, Television, Retail, and Oil & Gas. As a published author, she has shared her insights on diversity and inclusion in the book Banking on Change, showcasing her commitment to fostering inclusion.