Bio

Brandon is a PhD Finance candidate at Cambridge Judge Business School, and Economic and Social Research Council DTP Scholar and Honorary CERF Scholar at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. Previously, Brandon was a pre-doctoral researcher at the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF) and Cambridge Centre for Finance (CCFin), Cambridge Judge Business School. Brandon graduated from Wolfson College, University of Cambridge with an MPhil in Finance from Cambridge 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.

Brandon is an organiser for the Symposium on Foreign Exchange Markets. Brandon has experience teaching: supervising undergraduates and as a TA for MBA-level courses. Brandon has also worked as a currency research consultant for a large asset manager.