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A Global Perspective on Markets, Policy and Innovation

Nearly three decades spanning senior roles in global finance and central banking, board directorships, academic research and technology entrepreneurship.

Portrait of Dr Silvia Pepino

Dr Silvia Pepino is an economist, independent board director and technology founder. Her work has taken her across global financial markets, investment management and central banking, and into corporate boards, academia and technology entrepreneurship.

Her career has included senior roles at J.P. Morgan, Brevan Howard and the Bank of England, board positions in financial services and energy, and the founding of GlobeEye, an R&D company using satellite data, alternative data and AI to develop environmental intelligence. She is currently an Independent Director at BancoPosta Fondi SGR and a Visiting Senior Fellow in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Her work brings together macroeconomics and global markets, international political economy, geopolitics and geoeconomics, monetary and financial policy, financial stability and macroprudential policy, and AI, satellite data and the space economy.

Languages English · Italian · French · Spanish

Career

Global markets, central banking, corporate boards and technology entrepreneurship.

  1. Bank of England

    Head of International Forecast and Global Outlook · Head of Capital Markets Policy · Senior Adviser, Financial Stability Strategy and Risk

    Senior roles spanning the global economic outlook, capital-markets policy and financial stability. Her work covered macroeconomic and financial analysis, systemic risk, macroprudential policy and the resilience of market-based finance.

  2. J.P. Morgan

    Executive Director · Euro-area economic analysis

    A decade at the bank, leading Euro-area economic analysis and advising institutional clients on economic developments, monetary policy and their implications for financial markets.

  3. Brevan Howard & Comac Capital

    Senior Economist · Chief Economist

    Senior economist and chief economist roles at global macro investment firms, translating macroeconomic and policy analysis into investment views.

  4. Corporate governance

    BancoPosta Fondi SGR · Saras S.p.A.

    At BancoPosta Fondi SGR she chairs the Remuneration Committee and sits on the Risk Committee. She previously served as an Independent Director of Saras S.p.A. and as a member of its Control, Risk and Sustainability Committee.

  5. GlobeEye

    Founder & CEO

    Leading research, product and commercial development using satellite data, alternative data and AI to develop applications for environmental monitoring and the measurement and valuation of natural assets. Also leading the research team, R&D funding and partnerships, including projects supported by the European Commission and the European Space Agency.

    See the R&D projects

Education

PhD in International Political Economy, London School of Economics and Political Science. TRIUM Global Executive MBA, NYU Stern, HEC Paris and LSE. BSc and MSc in Economics, Bocconi University.

Research

International political economy
of markets, policy and technology

Her research examines how financial markets, public policy, technology and institutions interact in the global economy. It spans geopolitics and geoeconomic fragmentation, sovereign and systemic risk, financial stability and macroprudential policy, AI and geospatial intelligence in environmental and economic governance, financial innovation and the financing of innovation and investment.

Author of Sovereign Risk and Financial Crisis: The International Political Economy of the Eurozone, published by Palgrave Macmillan.

See selected work