Chris Turner joined Lombard Street Research in June 2006 as Head of Strategy. He has twenty years experience as an investment strategist and portfolio manager, spanning currency, equity and fixed income markets. His work concentrates on developing and monitoring investment strategies based on themes within our economic research, with emphasis on tactical asset allocation, US and global equities, currencies and commodities. His experience on the "buy side" included six years at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers as a manager of global equity and tactical asset allocation portfolios and a further three years co-founding and running a global macro hedge fund. Between 1989 and 1997 he worked for Barclays de Zoete Wedd, spending three years in Tokyo as Senior Money and Bond Market Economist and then five years in London as Chief Currency Strategist, when he appeared in the top 3 of the annual Thomson Extel Survey for 4 consecutive years. Chris has a BA in Economics from Cambridge University and began his career as an economist with the Bank of England.

Stefano Di Domizio joined Lombard Street Research as Senior Strategist in May 2009 after four years at JPMorgan Chase as an interest rate derivatives strategist. Prior to that, he spent around five years as economist/fixed-income strategist at IntesaSanPaolo bank in Milan. Stefano focuses on trade ideas generation in fixed-income/interest rates, including vanilla rate derivatives. Through combining fundamental, relative value and market analysis, his strategy aims at providing ideas for tactical positioning in interest rate markets. He holds a degree in economics and a master in economics and finance from the Universita’ Cattolica in Milan.

Maya Bhandari joined Lombard Street Research in May 2005, and was promoted to Head of Emerging Markets in May 2010. Her current role combines extensive work on both the economics and strategy services. On the economics side, her chief focus is on India, Latin America, Emerging Europe and Japan. She is responsible for all the emerging markets coverage on the strategy side of our business. Prior to joining Lombard Street Research, Maya worked as an analyst with HSBC Investment Bank and as an economist at the European Commission. She holds an MPhil in International Relations from Cambridge University and First Class honours in Economics from the University of Edinburgh.

Krupa Patel graduated from the University of Calcutta in India with a first class honours in Economics. She went on to do MSc Finance and Investment at the University of Exeter where one of her course assignments won an award for the best portfolio management team at University. Krupa joined Lombard Street Research in September 2008 and has done considerable work on intra-EMU bond spread valuations and government finances. She is also responsible for developing research on equity valuations.

Leigh Skene is a Canadian who has been involved in financial markets ever since he first purchased equities when he was a teenager. He became involved in debt analysis and trading at the Sun Life Assurance company of Canada. At investment bank Burns, Fry and Company (now BMO Nesbitt Burns) he was Head of Fixed Income Trading, then Chief Economist. In 1980 he left Burns Fry and established himself as an independent economic consultant specializing in financial markets. With financial markets becoming ever more global, he moved to England in 1993 to help his clients gain better international perspective. In 2007, he wrote three key reports for LSR: "The ABC of 21st Century Risk" (March); "Sub-prime mortgage fiasco - the start of something big" (June); and "Credit and credibility" (September). For GIO, Leigh concentrates on identifying investment opportunities in the money and bond markets (both sovereign and corporate). He is the author of four books, Managing a Bond Portfolio, 1977; The Canadian Economy: its problems and its potential, 1978; That's the Way the Money Goes, 1988 and Cycles of Inflation and Deflation, 1992.

Adrian Phillips has over 25 years experience of international equity markets. He has worked with Williams de Broë, Dresdner Kleinwort and Société Générale; his career has embraced both national equity market investment strategy and research into individual companies and sectors. The research team that he managed for Continental Europe at Dresdner Kleinwort was ranked number one by Extel and he was personally ranked in the top three by both Extel and Institutional Investor for company research and strategy research in Germany. Amongst the many investment banking mandates that he supported was the privatisation of St Gobain, the first ever by a French government, for which he was the lead analyst. More recently his work has covered the global technology hardware industry. He has written studies on investing in a number of global sectors for Lombard Street Research including steel, semiconductors and automakers.

Colin Waugh has over 20 years experience in global financial markets and began his career at Merrill Lynch specializing in commodities before working at Shearson Lehman Brothers in the US where he was Vice President, Commodities Division. He also operated his own Commodity Trading Advisory firm, C. Macdonald Futures. He has worked extensively in the developing world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, where he has been involved in post-conflict project management as well as investment consulting across the region.

Colin was partner, and senior portfolio manager at New York-based Galtere Ltd, a $2.5bn commodity – global macro fund until 2008 and joined Lombard Street as an Associate Director in September of that year. His research interests include emerging market investing, particularly in Asia and Africa, currency and commodity markets and the politics of the world trade system. Colin is a published author and holds a MSc. from the London School of Economics.