sophia parker

Team lead on UMAS' economics and finance projects in the maritime shipping industry. Co-author of the Poseidon Principles, a framework which assesses and discloses the climate alignment of ship finance portfolios. My work involves assessing climate risk for stakeholders in the shipping industry.

Provided economic and econometric analysis for the Economics team across the Competition Economics and Macroeconomics groups. I advised clients in market investigations in the retail banking, healthcare and energy sectors.

I designed and produced HSBC's macroeconomic forecasts for the bank's IFRS 9 program. I lead a team of economists in London and data analysts in India.

Modelled investment and operational decision making in the shipping industry for a government-funded project on shipping in changing climates. The focus of the work was to understand the role of finance and markets in influencing the take-up of energy efficient measures in the shipping industry. The work included model development and consulting to clean tech and other shipping related companies.

Forecasted regional macroeconomic data and provided economic analysis for U.S. states and metro economies. I also worked on consulting projects for corporate and governmental clients.