Dirk Bester

Quantitative Analyst, Rhodes Scholar

London, England, United Kingdom

About

Experience

  • Senior Quantitative Analyst at Millennium Advisors, LLC
    Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

    Algorithmic market making for fixed income. Quant research and development.

  • Quant Analyst, Risk pricing technical Lead at nPlan
    Mar 2022 - Jan 2023 · 11 mos

    Using nplan's proprietary engine to price risks for the construction industry

  • Vice President at Barclays Investment Bank
    Oct 2017 - Mar 2022 · 4 yrs 6 mos

    Behavioral modelling, asset and liability management as part of Treasury analytics

  • Sciemus (London Area, United Kingdom)
    • Chief Scientific Officer
      Jan 2016 - Oct 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos

      Lead the technical team that developed Sciemus’s risk assessment tools to measure and predict risks across the insurance portfolio. Used MCMC techniques in a variety of languages to parametrise micro-simulation models of complex assets. Duties included data analysis, knowledge management, and maintaining the technical infrastructure; physical and virtual environments in Windows and GNU/Linux.

    • Technical Director
      Jan 2015 - Dec 2015 · 1 yr

      Responsible for Development of tools to measure and predict insurance risks related to spacecraft, power utilities, solar farms, wind farms, and cyber insurance Sciemus won "Risk Modeller of the Year" at the Reactions London Market Awards, 2015.

  • Rhodes Scholar at University of Oxford
    Oct 2011 - Mar 2015 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    South Africa-at-Large 2011 Reading for a DPhil in Statistics, looking at joint models of longitudinal and time-to-event data, using C++ to develop Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms to estimate the parameters in a Bayesian framework.