Alex Patelis has over three decades of experience as an economist, analyst and strategist, working in a variety of positions in New York, London and Athens. He started his career with the US economics research team at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York. In London, he joined Citigroup Asset Management as a quantitative economist. At Merrill Lynch, he held a variety of positions, including Global head of FX & Debt strategy, as well as Managing Director of Global Research, Head of International Economics. In this capacity, Alex managed the research teams responsible for the firm’s outlook on all economies outside North America. For their research, Mr. Patelis and his team won a variety of awards, including from Extel and Institutional Investor. He was also Chief Economist at PSQR, a global discretionary macro hedge fund. More recently, he was President of Patelis Macro, an independent research boutique he launched in 2010, which focused on global macroeconomic analysis to select clients around the world. Mr. Patelis earned a Ph.D. in Economics in 1997 from Princeton University, USA. Titled “Asset returns and monetary policy”, part of his thesis was published in the Journal of Finance. He received a BA degree in Economics and Mathematics from Sussex University, UK.