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Ajay Rajadhyaksha is a Managing Director and Head of Macro Research at Barclays, based in New

York. He assumed his current role in July 2015 and now oversees the global research and strategy

efforts of the asset allocation, economics, rates, FX, commodities, emerging markets, and

securitized teams. Previously, he was Co-Head of FICC Research and before that, Head of US Fixed

Income Research and US and European Securitized Research. Mr. Rajadhyaksha joined Barclays in

2005 as a Senior Mortgage Strategist. Previously, he worked at Bear Stearns from 2001-2005,

where he worked in Portfolio Strategy and then led the Interest Rate Derivatives Strategy team.

Mr. Rajadhyaksha typically faces off against global CIOs and senior PMs at investment firms, and

is a frequent presenter at both Barclays-sponsored and industry conferences. Since august 2014,

he has been a member of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee, and meets several times a

year with the Chairperson of the Federal Reserve as well as the US Treasury Secretary as a formal

adviser on macroeconomic and market issues. Mr. Rajadhyaksha received a bachelor’s degree in

Electronics Engineering from the University of Mumbai in 1997, an MBA from the Indian Institute

of Management Calcutta in 1999 and a master’s degree in International Management from

Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management in Arizona in 2001.

David Page is head of macroeconomic research at AXA Investment Managers. He manages a global team of 10 economists and strategists, is a regular guest on Bloomberg TV and other global media. Page joined AXA Investment Managers in July 2014 as a senior economist to provide economics coverage on US and UK economies. He has written extensively on the US economy, covering elections, fundamental monetary policy debates and issues of fiscal stimulus. Before joining AXA Investment Managers, Page worked for four years at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking as a senior economist, primarily covering the UK economy. During this time, he was twice voted the top forecaster in the region in 2011 and 2012 (and came third in 2013). Prior to this, Page worked for 10 years at Investec Bank as a global economist, primarily covering the UK and European economies. Before this, he spent five years in the Government Economic Service, initially working for the energy regulator before joining the UK Debt Management Office – an executive agency of HM Treasury – at its inception in 1998, considering issues of primary issuance for the UK gilt market. Page holds a masters of science degree in economics from the University of Warwick, UK and a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of York.

Beata Harasim is a senior investment strategist at BlackRock and a member of the BlackRock Investment Institute. She is responsible for developing tactical asset allocation frameworks and contributing to related thought leadership. Before starting her current role, Harasim worked at BlackRock for nine years, most recently as a global macro portfolio manager in the diversified strategies team, running a discretionary fundamental investment process with a primary focus on currencies and fixed income. Prior to that, she worked as a portfolio manager in BlackRock's global and European fixed income teams. Harasim is a Chartered Financial Analyst Institute and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association charterholder. She holds a masters degree in finance and banking from the Warsaw School of Economics and completed a post graduate course in big data and advanced analytics in 2016.

Lukas Becker

Desk editor

Lukas Becker is the derivatives desk editor for Risk.net. His topics of interest include over-the-counter derivatives pricing, collateral management, market infrastructure and legal risk. He is based in London.

He was previously the Europe, Middle East and Africa editor of Risk magazine.

Joe Parsons is deputy editor on the markets desk. He was formerly deputy editor at Global Custodian, and prior to that was at The Trade.