Dan Davies Keynote Speaker

Dan  Davies distils the chaotic inner workings of financial systems with clarity, wit, and sharp insight. His early 2024 book, The Unaccountability Machine—subtitled Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions and How the World Lost Its Mind—revisits cybernetics to reveal how sprawling institutions evade responsibility and become decision-averse.

As an economist at the Bank of England, he witnessed pivotal crises—Barings’ collapse, the Mexico bailout and the LTCM rescue—and later entered Credit Suisse in 2007 to watch the global banking meltdown from the front row. He then helped steer research teams at Credit Suisse and Exane BNP Paribas to win Institutional Investor All‑Europe Research polls three times, earning a reputation for making financial regulation compelling and readable.

An accomplished author and commentator, Davies now serves as Head of Research at Frontline Analysts and edits the Predicto newsletter forecasting geopolitics and financial risk. He also leads the Mediobanca Regulatory Observatory with in-depth weekly analysis on European banking. His writing appears in the Financial Times and The New Yorker, and he is a familiar presence among top finance voices on Twitter.