Michail Steliaros

Dr Michail Steliaros is the global head of portfolio implementation and trading at Abu Dhabi
Investment Authority, where he is responsible for the portfolio management and execution of the fund’s equity and fixed income portfolios. He leads the portfolio implementation function of ADIA’s Core Portfolio Department, which is responsible for implementing ADIA’s benchmark exposures across equity and fixed-income markets, managing ADIA-wide treasury-related activities, and executing equity, fixed-income, money market, and currency trades.

Prior to ADIA, Michail was the global head of quantitative execution services at Goldman Sachs. There he built the team that is responsible for the research, development and implementation of quantitative processes for portfolio and electronic trading, as well as spearhead the firm’s relationships with the quantitative client-base across regions. He managed a variety of teams globally, spanning algorithmic research, portfolio quants, client solutions, analytics and quantitative data and content generation. He joined Goldman as a managing director in 2017.

He previously spent eight years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in a variety of senior roles in London and New York, including the centralisation of risk for the bank’s equities flow, quantitative liquidity management processes and in the latter years running the global agency portfolio trading and quantitative equity businesses.

Earlier in his career, he spent more than a decade on the buy-side (most notably BGI and Winton) building quant stock-selection models and managing global market neutral equity portfolios. Prior to his career in the industry, Michail was a financial econometrics lecturer at City University (CASS/Bayes) Business School in London. He has a wide range of academic, peer-reviewed and practitioner journal and book publications on a host of finance topics, as well as numerous presentations in global quant and industry conferences.

Michail received a bachelor’s degree in economics and econometrics from the University of Nottingham, and master’s and PhD degrees in finance from City University (CASS/Bayes) Business School inLondon.