Ian Wright

Ian Wright is an assistant professor in the finance department at Brigham Young University where he is the undergraduate finance program director. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, where he teaches macrofinance in the masters of financial math program. Prior to coming to BYU, he was a quantitative macro investor in a $20bln fund at BlackRock in London, where he invested across asset classes and regions. Preceding that he was an Executive Director in the asset allocation research group in the macro department at Goldman Sachs in London.

Ian graduated with his Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at Stanford University, where he served as a research assistant to the Working Group on Economic Policy at the Hoover Institution and was a co-editor of the book Government Policies and the Delayed Economic Recovery.