Speakers

Ronald Ratcliffe, PhD, is a Managing Director at BlackRock and the Head Strategist - Portfolio Analytics. He focuses on multi-asset portfolio risk, scenario analysis, and portfolio construction.

Dr. Ratcliffe has been with BlackRock since 2004, including his tenure at Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. Previously, he led the Market-Driven Scenarios initiative as the Head of Cross-Platform Scenario Analysis in the Risk & Quantitative Analysis group. He was the Head of Multi-Asset Investment Risk for the Americas West region. In the Portfolio Management Group, he was a portfolio manager and developed systematic macro trading strategies. Prior to joining BGI, Dr. Ratcliffe was a senior manager at KPMG, specializing in corporate valuation and international transfer pricing. He also served as the chief economist for Latin America at SG Cowen Securities, a subsidiary of Societe Generale. Earlier in his career, he worked at Bankers Trust Company (now part of Deutsche Bank), where he conducted country risk analysis.

Dr. Ratcliffe earned BA degrees in economics and political science, with distinction and departmental honors in economics, from Stanford University. He received a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.