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

Prior to GRI, Jorge 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 is 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.

Jorge’s extensive experience includes being a Senior Economist and Principal Researcher at the Bank of Canada, and editor of the Financial System Review. More recently, Jorge served as Director of Research and Financial Engineering at Financial Network Analytics Ltd., a leading FinTech firm in the UK. 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 of Carleton University, the University of Ottawa, and Simon Fraser University, where he obtained a PhD in Finance in 2014.