Bio

Brandon is a PhD Finance candidate at Judge Business School and Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. He is an Economic and Social Research Council DTP Scholar, an Honorary CERF Scholar, a Research Associate at the Centre for Endowment Asset Management, University of Cambridge, and a research member of The Cambridge Foreign Exchange Initiative. Previously, Brandon was a pre-doctoral researcher at the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF) and Cambridge Centre for Finance (CCFin), University of Cambridge. Brandon graduated from Wolfson College, University of Cambridge with an MPhil in Finance from Judge Business School, and a BAcc Accountancy with Finance First Class Honours from University of Glasgow, Adam Smith Business School where he was awarded the Adam Smith Scholar Award for Excellence.

Brandon's principal research interests are in international finance and empirical asset pricing. In particular, he is interested in understanding the risk-return drivers of exchange rates. He is also, more broadly, interested in the interactions between macroeconomics and financial markets, including international economics and the effects of monetary and exchange rate policy on asset prices. He is supervised by Professor Lucio Sarno.

Beyond research, Brandon is an organiser for the Symposium on Foreign Exchange Markets; he has experience teaching: supervising undergraduates and as a TA for MFin and MBA-level courses; and, has also worked as a currency research consultant for a large asset manager. In the summer of 2026, Brandon will undertake a PhD internship in the International Directorate of the Bank of England.