Michael Haigh

Michael Haigh is managing director and global head of commodities research for Société Générale and is based in London. In 2021, the Société Générale commodities research team was voted by the industry as the best cross commodity research team in Energy Risk, a highly respected publication dedicated to risk management, trading and regulation for the global commodity markets. Immediately prior to running the global commodities research team, Michael was global head of commodities research at Standard Chartered Bank, based in Singapore. Prior to joining Standard Chartered Bank, Michael held the positions of managing director at K2 Advisors LLC, a global hedge fund of funds where he focused on commodity research/investing, and also managing director and US head of commodities research and strategy at Société Générale in NYC.

Michael also spent several years as the associate chief economist at the US commodity futures trading commission (CFTC). Michael began his career in academia and held a position as a tenured associate professor of economics at the University of Maryland. Michael has taught graduate and undergraduate derivative courses at several universities including NYU Stern School of Business, Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University and supervised numerous Ph.D dissertations on the commodity and financial markets. He has published numerous scholarly research papers on the commodity and derivative markets in several leading journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Business, Journal of Futures Markets and the Journal of Applied Econometrics. Michael holds a Ph.D in economics with a minor in statistics from North Carolina State University.