Sébastien Page
Head of Global Multi-Asset & CIO, T. Rowe Price
Sébastien Page is head of Global Multi-Asset at T. Rowe Price, overseeing an investment team dedicated to multi-asset portfolios. He is a member of the Asset Allocation Committee and the Management Committee of T. Rowe Price Group. Prior to joining the firm in 2015, Mr. Page was an executive vice president at PIMCO, where he led a team focused on research and development of multi-asset solutions. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2010, he was a senior managing director at State Street Global Markets. Mr. Page won research paper awards from the Journal of Portfolio Management and from the Financial Analyst Journal. He is the coauthor of the book "Factor Investing and Asset Allocation" and a member of the editorial board of the Financial Analysts Journal. Mr. Page, CFA, earned a Master of Science degree in finance and a bachelor's degree in business administration from Sherbrooke University in Quebec.
David Mericle
Chief U.S. Economist, Goldman Sachs
David Mericle is chief U.S. economist in Global Investment Research. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2012 as an associate and was named managing director in 2017. Mr. Mericle earned an AB in Economics and History and an AM in Statistics in 2005 from
Harvard University. He earned a PhD and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in
Economics at Harvard University in 2012.
Ravi Bellur
Founder & CIO, Ripple Effect Asset Management
Ravi Bellur is the founder and CIO of Ripple Effect Asset Management, LP. Prior to launching Ripple Effect in 2024, Ravi was the founding portfolio manager and head of thematic strategies at Tarsadia Capital, the investment manager for a multi-billion dollar single family office. Prior to joining Tarsadia Capital, he was a managing director at PointState Capital and subsequently a principal at Blockhouse Capital, a PointState spinout. Before PointState / BlockHouse, Ravi worked as a vice president at BlackRock/R3 Capital in their distressed products and special situations group. Ravi began his career at Goldman Sachs, working in the Principal Investment Area and Credit Division. He has served as a director at several private companies including mature and start-up corporations in the metals and recycling sectors. Ravi is currently a Trustee and the chair of the Finance and Faculties Committee at North Star Academy, a public charter school in Newark, NJ. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business.
Willis Sparks
Director of Global Macro, Eurasia Group
Willis Sparks is a thought leader on risks, opportunities, and trends created by current geopolitical conflicts and political developments in major emerging market countries, as well as on US politics and foreign policy. He works directly with Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer on a variety of macro political risk projects. Willis has made speeches on market-moving trends in international politics for investor and corporate audiences on every continent except Antarctica. Prior to joining Eurasia Group in 2005, Willis worked at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he wrote on transnational terrorism and U.S. national security. Willis holds master's degrees in international affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, where he specialized in international security policy and the former Soviet Union, and from Sciences Po in Paris. He holds two bachelor's degrees from Brown University and is a graduate of the Juilliard School. In addition, Willis once worked as a stuntman at New York's Metropolitan Opera.
Avi Goldfarb
Professor, University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management
Avi Goldfarb is the Rotman Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare, and professor of marketing, at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Avi is also chief data scientist at the Creative Destruction Lab, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research lead at the Acceleration Consortium. A former senior editor at Marketing Science, his research focuses on the economics of digital technology and artificial intelligence. He has published academic articles in marketing, computing, law, management, medicine, physics, political science, public health, statistics, and economics. He testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on competition and privacy in digital advertising, and before the Canadian House of Commons on the AI and Data Act. A regular speaker at leading universities and companies around the world, his keynotes include the NATO Defense College’s 70th anniversary event, the Lancet Commission on Cancer and Health Systems, the IEEE Aerospace Conference, and the European Commission’s Workshop on the Economics of AI. Avi received his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University. He co-authored the bestselling books Prediction Machines and Power and Prediction, both on the economics of artificial intelligence.
Spencer Levy
Global Client Strategist & Senior Economic Advisor, CBRE
Spencer Levy is the Global Client Strategist and Senior Economic Advisor for CBRE, the largest commercial real estate firm in the world. Spencer is part of the Global Client Care team, a group of professionals around the world who are responsible for account management and client experience programs for the company’s largest clients. In addition to his client-facing role, Spencer serves as a primary company spokesperson and is considered one of the most insightful commentators on issues of importance to commercial real estate. He is frequently quoted in major business publications and is the host of CBRE’s award-winning podcast The Weekly Take, the most heavily downloaded podcast in commercial real estate.
