Direction: Consultancy!

Date: 12th October, 5:00 PM
Location: Zoom (buy a membership to get your link!)
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In next week's event, we will focus on careers! Hosting not one, but two directors of a behavioral science consultancy Salient, we will look into how the insights from economics, psychology, sociology, and data science help us understand human behaviour. 
We will focus on practical interventions directed towards business growth, powerful decision-making, and effective policies. 

Maddie and Benno are both alumni of the PBS department here at LSE so it’s a great look into where you could go with your degree. 

As usual, there will be time for questions, so come prepared!  
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Our speakers:

Maddie Quinlan is director & co-founder of Salient Behavioural Consultants, and the Head of Membership for the Global Association of Applied Behavioural Scientists. Her greatest passion is bridging the gap between academic insight and the implementation of impactful and sustainable behavioural solutions for business, policy, and design challenges. She is a qualified behavioural scientist with expertise spanning private, public, and not-for-profit organizations, focussing primarily in the areas of finance, energy, and risk management. 

Maddie’s years of in-depth industry experience center in the trading, fintech and energy sectors via Shareworks by Morgan Stanley, a pioneering fintech entrant in the options management sector and ICE NGX, an innovative clearinghouse for commodities trading. She holds a Master of Behavioural Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science. In addition, she holds her CFA Charter, and degrees in both Finance and Psychology. 

In a rapidly changing world, Maddie believes in relentless betterment and radical authenticity. She is also a writer, podcast host, and yoga teacher.

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Benno is a director & co-founder at Salient Behavioural Consultants, leveraging latest behavioural science insights to implement practical real-world solutions. Combining robust behavioural science frameworks with years of industry expertise, his core interest is applying behavioural insights in the context of financial markets, the environment as well as the aviation industry. Prior to co-founding Salient, he has worked for more than a decade as a trading executive with leading investment banks such as J.P. Morgan and BNP Paribas. 

He is also a Partner at HCBL, a London based global environmental markets service provider, as well as an advisory board member for a number of hedge funds. Moreover, he researches risk taking in high stakes contexts as part of his PhD at the London School of Economics. Special interests include time and domain specific risk-tolerance fluctuations in the context of background risk and in high stake industries such as professional trading and aviation. He holds an MSc in Behavioural Science from the London School of Economics as well as a master's degree in Mathematical Finance from the University of Konstanz, Germany.