Gbenga Ibikunle

Gbenga is a Professor and Chair of Finance at the University of Edinburgh, and as the Director for Industry, Economy and Society at the University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh Futures Institute, he leads on strategic FinTech and Financial Services initiatives at the University. He was the Founding Director of both the University’s flagship FinTech Master’s and PhD programmes. Gbenga is also the Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Financial Innovations, the Deputy Scientific Director at the Fondazione European Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre in Pescara, Italy, a Fellow at the RoZetta Institute (formerly Capital Markets CRC) in Sydney, Australia, and a Council Member of the of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Resilient Financial Systems (2023-2024 term). His current research sits at the intersection of the economics of financial markets and data science with applications to practice and policy. His commissioned research reports have been published by various bodies, such as the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority and the UK Houses of Parliament’s All Party Parliamentary Corporate Governance Group. His work has also been published in leading international academic journals, including Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Marketing and Expert Systems with Applications, and featured in the international news media, e.g., The New York Times, The Economist, Financial Times, Forbes and Bloomberg Markets.