Silvia Stanescu

Silvia Stanescu is leading the systematic options capabilities at Aspect Capital, having joined from GAM Investments where she most recently co-headed the investment (quant) team at GAM Systematic Cambridge. Previously, Silvia’s career included sell-side roles (Equity Derivatives Strategist with Deutsche Bank in London) as well as academia (Assistant Professor in Finance at the University of Kent).

Silvia holds a PhD in Finance from the ICMA Centre at the University of Reading, as well as and MSc in Finance and BSc in Business Economics, both from Reading, and an BSc (Diploma de Licenta) in Banking and Finance from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies.

Silvia is a member of the Government Board of the CCIMI, an Institute for the Mathematics of Information, part of the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and has been included in The Hedge Fund Journal’s 50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds (2020 edition), as well as Citywire Italy’s ‘Le 25 Signore degli hedge fund del mundo’ (The 25 Women In Hedge Funds Globally, March 2021).