Yang Song founded property business PDI Capital Ltd, a company specializing in property development and investment in the UK. Prior to this he held a senior sales and marketing role at Hutchinson whampoa Europe.

Ian Baggett
Professor-In-Practice

Ian Baggett is the Founder CEO of Adderstone Group, one of the largest privately owned companies in the Northeast of England. This Professor in Practice post is joint between the Department of Finance and the Department of Management & Marketing at Durham University Business School.

A respected specialist in sustainability and renewables with a diverse range of biological and environmental science, academic, business and real estate experience with a strong track record in infrastructure funding and venture capital.

Sarah Pritchard is the Executive Director for Markets and International at the Financial Conduct Authority. She has considerable experience in financial markets, regulation, and policy.

Stephen Withnell's background is as an investment banker working across a range of asset classes. A large proportion of Stephen’s career was at Goldman Sachs working in commodities and the financing of commodity firms. At present Stephen runs his own financial intermediation firm.

Parik Chandra is a knowledgeable finance professional, with over twenty years of banking and finance experience, specialising in real estate finance. Currently a Partner at a fund management business but with broad experience working for banks and marketplace lending platforms also.

Professor Malz spent the majority of his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with the last three (2011 to 2014) as the Vice President and Senior Advisor in the Markets Group. From 2017 onwards he split his time between running an $8 Billion investment portfolio for a “Family Office” and as an adjunct professor at Columbia University in New York. His expertise lies in  the areas of financial risk management; central banking; derivatives and securization, alternative investments; and foreign exchange.

A seasoned investment professional, Geoff Robinson excels in building and revolutionising businesses within the investment management sector. 

Economist and applied mathematician with nearly two decades of experience designing, executing, and interpreting economic research and data analyses for diverse audiences in the financial services sector. Strong modeling and hands-on programming experience in statistics, econometrics, and ML/AI applications. Subject-matter expertise in economics, financial engineering, and multiple financial asset classes. 

With a career spanning 50 years, Professor White-Hunt has held senior posts in academia, business and government in the Asia-Pacific Region; Middle East & Africa; and USA; as well as in the UK & EU. Extensive research experience with over 100 personal publications, as well as in the supervision of individual postgraduates and management of team-based research projects. While having broad interests, his field of expertise converges around the theme of Strategic, Change and Crises Management, whether driven by technology; environmental; regulatory; QA; domestic or international market competition; and political and security factors.