Patrick Artus
Chief Economist, Natixis
Patrick Artus is the Chief Economist and member of the executive committee of Natixis. He began his career in 1975 in economic forecasting and modelling at the French Ministry of Finance. He worked at the Economics Department of the OECD (1980), at Banque de France (1985) and served as the Head of Research at ENSAE. Throughout his career, Artus has been a visiting professor at a number of Universities including, Dauphine, ENSAE, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, HEC Lausanne, Ecole Polytechnique. He is now Professor of Economics at the Paris School of economics.
Artus is also a member of the Board at Total and Ipsos as an independent director. He has been a member of council of Economic Advisors to the French government.
Alicia Garcia Herrero
Chief Economist, Asia Pacific, Natixis
Alicia Garcia Herrero serves as Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at the investment bank-arm of Natixis, based in Hong Kong. She also conducts policy analysis at two think tanks: Brussels-based BRUEGEL focused on economy policy and Madrid-based Real Instituto Elcano, focused on geopolitical issues.
Garcia Herrero holds advisory roles for central banks and international institutions, such as the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). In addition, she serves as adjunct professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and publishes articles in refereed journals and books. Garcia Herrero was recently nominated Top 10 Voice in Economics and Finance by LinkedIn. Prior to joining Natixis, she served as Chief Economist for Emerging Markets at BBVA Research, was a member of the Asian Research Program of the Bank for international Settlements (BIS) and was Head of the International Economics Division at Banco de España.
Megan Greene
Chief Economist, Manulife Asset Management
Megan E. Greene is a Managing Director and Chief Economist at John Hancock Asset Management, responsible for forecasting global macro-economic and financial trends and analyzing the potential opportunities and impacts to support the firm’s investment teams around the world. Previously, Greene ran her own London-based economics consulting practice, Maverick Intelligence, serving clients who leveraged her analysis of economic, political, policy and social developments and the impact these were likely to have on the global economy. Prior to Maverick, she was director of European Economics at Roubini Global Economics and the euro crisis expert at the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Joe LaVorgna
Chief Economist, Americas, Natixis
Joseph LaVorgna is Managing Director and Chief Economist for the Americas at Natixis. He is in charge of leading the firm’s economic research effort in the region and managing a team of economists that analyze trends in the equity, fixed income, foreign exchange and commodity markets.
LaVorgna has 25 years of financial services experience and joined Natixis after working at Deutsche Bank for 20 years where he was the firm’s Chief US Economist. During that time, he was one of the leading forecasters on Wall Street. He was ranked as a top economist in the prestigious Institutional Investors’ All-Star Fixed Income Survey from 2010 to 2017, finishing #1 on two occasions and #2 in 2015. At Natixis, LaVorgna publishes the widely disseminated US Snap Chart, as well as the bi-monthly US Macro Insights.
Kevin Alexander
Deputy CEO Americas and Head of Global Markets, Natixis
Mr. Alexander was appointed Head of Global Markets Americas in 2015 and Deputy CEO, Americas in 2018. He supervises Fixed Income, Commodities, Equities, Structured Credit and Solutions, Treasury, Relationship Management, Business Management, and Financial Analytics.
He has 21 years of direct industry experience, including 18 at Natixis. Mr. Alexander, who had been Head of Fixed Income Americas since 2014, has held several positions within Natixis and its predecessors. Prior to his appointment as Head of Fixed Income Americas, he was the Global Head of GSCS from 2011-2014 and the US Head of the workout portfolio from 2008-2011. He joined CDC Capital in 1999 to help develop the interest rate derivative marketing and securitization swaps effort. He began his career as an economic analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and moved to Interest Rate Derivatives at Bankers Trust in 1998.
Mr. Alexander holds an MA in Economics from Fordham University and a BS in Business Administration and Accounting from Washington & Lee University.
