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A specialist in applied decision science, behavioural finance, and financial wellbeing - improving decisions through behavioural science.

Greg started the banking world's first behavioural finance team as Head of Behavioural-Quant Finance at Barclays, which he built and led for a decade.

In 2016, he founded Centapse, in 2017 joining forces with Oxford Risk where he is Head of Behavioural Science, to combine behavioural consulting with the development of decision support tools to help people (and organisations) across the financial services industry make better decisions.

Greg holds a PhD in Behavioural Decision Theory from Cambridge; is an Associate Fellow at Oxford's Saïd Business School; a lecturer at Imperial College London; and author of Behavioral Investment Management.

Greg is also the creator of Open Outcry, a 'reality opera' premiered in London in 2012, creating live performance from a functioning trading floor.

Current position (3)

Head of Behavioural Finance

Oxford Risk

Associate Fellow

Said Business School, Oxford University

Visiting Lecturer

Imperial College Business School

Degrees (2)

PhD Behavioural Decision Theory

Cambridge University

2002 to 2005

MPhil Economics

Cambridge University

1997 to 1998

Presentations

Presentations (11)

Beeswax and Ropes: Decision Prosthetics for Better Decisions

Justifiable Conviction

How to design your decision processes to make better investing decisions.

Anxiety Adjusted Returns: Investment Decisions for Real People

Behavioural Wine Tasting (with Master of Wine John Downes)

MAKING BETTER BUSINESS DECISIONS & ELIMINATING DECISION BIAS WITH THE HELP OF WINE.

A UNIQUE, INTERACTIVE EVENT COMBINING DECISION SCIENCE, LIVE PSYCHOLOGY & WINE

https://www.johndownes.com/behavioral-wine-tasting

Over 90 minutes Greg and John, with the help of blind tasting, explore our decision biases, and explain how to correct them.
Interactive live polling software, analysis and data collected anonymously lays bare the perceptions of the whole group.
Drawing on decision science and wine, we explain techniques to correct your biases, helping you to make better business decisions every day.

Goals as a Behavioural Tool: Facilitators or Handcuffs?

First Contact with Uncertainty: Better Strategy with Behavioural Science & Military Planning

Beyond Nudge: Behavioural Design for Better Decisions

Centaur Design: Combining Humans and Systems to Improve Decisions

Investing with Ulysses: Overcoming the Cost of Being Human

Overcoming the "bias" bias

The Best of Humans, the Best of Technology - Decision Prosthetics and the Gift of Time

Past talks (16)

Justifiable Conviction

Coutts/Natwest Investment Team

London

March 11, 2022

Investing with Ulysses: Better Decisions through Behavioural Design

CFA USA Speaking Tour

Arizona and California

March 18, 2019

Beyond nudge: embracing the burden of big decisions

Aviva Investors:UK Institutional Pensions Conference

The Shard, London

October 3, 2018

Goals as a behavioural tool: Facilitators or handcuffs?

Trends Investment Summit Benelux

Brussels

January 10, 2018

Beyond Nudge: Building Decision Prosthetics

The Financial Services Forum European Executive Summit

Nice, France

2017

Behavioural design for better decisions

EFG Asset Management Offsite

London

January 10, 2018

Investing with Ulysses: Overcoming the Cost of Being Human

Inspire Investment Conference (BNY Mellon)

Dublin, Ireland

2017

Making Better Financial Decisions

Nucleus Annual Conference

Birmingham

2017

Anxiety Adjusted Returns

Behavioral Finance for Policy and Regulation

Heidelberg

2017

Breaking Down Behavioural Barriers to Retirement

Pensions and Benefits UK

London

2017

The Science of Decision Making: Building Decision Prosthetics

KPMG Learning - Behavioural Science Day

London

2017

Wealth Management: Expanding the Zone of Competence

Wealth Management Association Annual Summit

London

2016

Centaur Design

UCD16 - Being Human

London

2016

Breaking down behavioural barriers to retirement

Pensions and Benefits UK

London

2017

Overcoming the "bias" bias

London Behavioural Economics Network

London

September 3, 2018

Trust in leadership: the behavioural science of trust

The Financial Services Forum European Executive Summit

Nice, France

September 24, 2018

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Books & Articles (10)

Behavioral Investment Management

McGraw-Hill,

2012

New Vistas in Risk Profiling

Practical challenges of implementing behavioural finance

A Behavioural Perspective on Goal-Based Investing

The Value of Being Human: A Behavioural Framework for Impact Investing and Philanthropy

Investor Happiness

Overcoming the cost of being human (or the pursuit of anxiety adjusted returns)

Managing Anxiety to Improve Financial Performance: Don’t Let the Best be the Enemy of the Achievable

Risk Tolerance: Essential, behavioural and misunderstood

Why Buy Art?

Expertise (16)

Clients

Aviva Investors

Barclays

Momentum Investments

Point 72

CFA Research Institute

EFG Asset Management

Newton Investment Management

Redington Investment Consultancy

Fitch

Coupa

Awards & certifications (1)

Outstanding Contribution to Wealth Management Thought Leadership

Wealth Briefing

2014