James Sefton
Chair in Economics at Imperial College London
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- Imperial College London
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Summary
James Sefton has worked both in academia and industry; he is currently a Professor of Economics at Imperial, but was previous a Senior Quantitative Analyst at UBS Investment Bank. As an academic, he participates in the current debate on intergenerational equity, as a financial analyst he specialises in understanding asset pricing anomalies and equity investment strategies.
His career has been equally eclectic. James qualified first as an Information Engineer, before studying for a Ph.D. in systems theory at Cambridge University. His career as an economist began at the Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge University, and then at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research. He led a variety of projects including one to compile the first set of UK Generational Accounts (which now forms the basis of H.M. Treasury’s annual Long term Fiscal Sustainability Report), one funded by D.W.P. investigating the impact of the means-testing of pension benefits on early retirement, and another to build an equilibrium asset allocation model for the Inland Revenue.
He has published widely in areas as varied as computable general equilibrium modelling, national accounting, portfolio management and econometrics. In 2001 he was appointed to a Chair of Economics at Imperial College and became an Executive Director at UBS.
Education/Qualifications:
- MSc and PhD from Cambridge University
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