Jorge Cruz Lopez is managing director and head of research at the Global Risk Institute. In this role, he oversees internal and external research projects, ensuring the delivery of industry-leading content. He also manages research partnerships in Canada and abroad and actively engages with GRI members to ensure research efforts are aligned with member priorities.

Prior to the GRI, Cruz Lopez was director of the master of financial economics program at Western University where his research interests included financial risk management, asset pricing and financial market infrastructures. He’s a member of the advisory board of the New York Institute of Finance and an editor of the Journal of Financial Market Infrastructures and the Latin American Journal of Central Banking.

Cruz Lopez’s extensive experience includes senior economist and principal researcher at the Bank of Canada and editor of the Financial System Review. More recently, he was director of research and financial engineering at Financial Network Analytics Ltd., a leading FinTech firm in the U.K. He has been a visiting scholar at De Nederlandsche Bank, HEC Paris and Queensland University of Technology and has held teaching positions in the business schools at Carleton University, the University of Ottawa and Simon Fraser University, where he obtained a doctor of philosophy in finance in 2014.