Women in Quantitative Finance: Career Progression, Challenges & Leadership

Sandrine is Managing Director, Global head of Quantitative Investment Strategies Structuring at Societe Generale. Before that, she was leading the cross-asset quantitative research team and has gained recognition as a market leader in quantitative research and received several awards among which the Best Quant Team award from Extel in 2023 and the 2021 Risk Award for Research House of the Year.

Prior to this role, Sandrine held various positions within the Societe Generale quantitative research teams in Paris and London, focusing on interest rate markets, credit markets, and options markets across assets. Sandrine is a graduate of ENSTA (Paris) and holds a Master's degree in Quantitative Finance from Paris VI University.

Silvia has close to 20 years experience in systematic and volatility research and investment, across academia, sell-side and buy-side.

Prior to her current position heading quant investment research at Emcore, a boutique derivatives manager headquartered in Switzerland, she was portfolio manager and principal researcher at London-based Aspect Capital, managing products across defensive, alpha and solutions in systematic volatility. She joined Aspect from Gam Systematic (previously Cantab) where she most recently co-headed the quant investment team at the Cambridge-based manager.

Earlier in her career she was a derivatives strategist at Deutsche Bank in London and an assistant professor in quant finance at the University of Kent in the UK. She retains links with academia, having served on the governance board of CCIMI, an institute for the Mathematics of Information, part of the Faculty of Mathematics at University of Cambridge. Silvia holds BSc and MSc degrees from the University of Reading and the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, as well as a PhD in Finance from the ICMA Centre at the University of Reading.

Joan is a Senior Quantitative Finance Analyst at CitiGroup.  Ms Omeru’s first degree is in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and later a Master’s Degree in Analogue and Digital Integrated Electronics Engineering at Imperial College London. Her fascinating engineering career has spanned across numerous industries including Intelligent Transport Electronics Engineering and Defence Systems Electronics Design.

She later embarked on a Doctoral Research degree in High Performance Computational Finance also at Imperial College, which has led her into the world of financial engineering as a Quant. As a quant, Joan has worked in both the buy-side and sell-side firms including; Tyler Capital, Omers Capital and Bank of America.

Ms Omeru is passionate about encouraging and mentoring women into making successful careers in the world of STEM in general as well as in Quantitative finance, highlighting the critical role these disciplines play in the modern world.

Julie joined HSBC in May 2021 as Head of the FICC Quantitative Analytics team. Julie is responsible for delivering analytics across FICC globally to facilitate business growth and meet regulations, as well as driving the convergence towards a unified FICC-wide analytics platform.

Prior to HSBC, Julie worked for over 16 years at Barclays where she led teams in the Quantitative Analytics space across Rates, Emerging Markets and FX.

Julie is a firm believer in the importance of developing further the diversity across Markets, and she has during the course of her career taken a very active role in growing female quant talent as well as promoting STEM-based careers to female students.

Julie holds a degree in Financial Mathematics and Computer Science from the Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Informatique et Mathematiques Appliquees de Grenoble (ENSIMAG).

Date:

Thursday 25th June 2026

Agenda:

18:00 - 19:00 Drinks Reception & Canapés
19:00 - 20:00 Welcome, Expert Panel and Q&A
20:00 - 20:30 Networking
20:30 - 20:45 Close

Address:

Eventspace at Salisbury House, 114 London Wall, EC2M 5QD