Professor Marcos López de Prado OMC 

Global Head – Quantitative Research & Development at ADIA, Professor of Practice at Cornell University's School of Engineering, Research Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Office of Science), and Professor of Practice at Khalifa University’s Department of Mathematics

Over the past 25 years, Prof. López de Prado has helped modernize finance by pioneering machine learning and statistical inference methods that are now widely adopted at some of the largest investment corporations. His contributions have earned him several scientific, state, and industry awards, including the National Award for Academic Excellence (1999) from the Kingdom of Spain, the Quant Researcher of the Year Award (2019) from Portfolio Management Research, the Buy-Side Quant of the Year Award (2021) from Risk.net, and the Bernstein Fabozzi / Jacobs Levy Award (2024) from The Journal of Portfolio Management. The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) ranks him among the 10 most-read authors in Economics, and the U.S. Congress has invited him to testify on AI policy. In 2024, His Majesty King Felipe VI and the Government of Spain appointed him Knight Officer of the Royal Order of Civil Merit (OMC), "for distinguished services to science and the global investment industry."

Since 2011, Prof. López de Prado has been a research fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science). He has published approximately 100 scientific articles on financial machine learning and statistical inference in the leading academic journals, is a founding co-editor of The Journal of Financial Data Science, and the author of several influential graduate textbooks, including Advances in Financial Machine Learning (Wiley, 2018), Machine Learning for Asset Managers (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and Causal Factor Investing (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

Prof. López de Prado earned a PhD in financial econometrics (2003), and a second PhD in mathematical finance (2011) from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He completed his post-doctoral research at Harvard University and Cornell University, where he has been a professor since 2015. rof. López de Prado has an Erdős #2 (via Neil Calkin) and an Einstein #4 according to the American Mathematical Society.