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 macro finance 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.