Quant Strats 2025

March 11, 2025

Quorum by Convene, NY, USA

Irina Bogacheva

Director of Research, Systematic Global Macro Millburn

Irina Bogacheva is a Director of Research at Millburn, an alternative asset manager based in New York. She is a member of Millburn’s Investment Committee and oversees a group of quantitative researchers who specialize in areas such as machine learning, alternative data insights, and portfolio construction. Irina’s remit is to broaden and enhance Millburn’s systematic research and development through the utilization of new datasets and models. Outside of Millburn, Irina is an adjunct professor in the Mathematics of Finance Program at Columbia University in New York. She was previously Head of Quantitative Research at QS Investors (acquired by Franklin Templeton), where she ran systematic global macro processes. She earlier held senior research roles at Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, AIG Global Asset Management and Goldman Sachs. Irina holds an MBA with a concentration in Analytic Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, an MA in Economics from the New Economic School in Moscow, and a Diploma in Mathematics from Moscow State University.

Tuesday 11th March agenda

9:40 AM State of the Union: What does the current macro environment mean for you?

This ‘state of the union’ type panel deciphers just what has happened over the past year, with volatility, uncertainty and seismic technological advancements garnering speed, this panel has a look at what that means for the Quant Strats community. 


  • What strategies and tools have generated alpha over the past year? How does an organisation allocate assets and who have been the winners? 
  • How will self-learning technological advancement be scaled and impact global financial markets? Are we starting to see a shift? 
  • Where are the risks in the wider market, funds and diversified portfolios? How is this exposure being managed? 

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Irina.

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