Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi is the founder and CEO of Foresight Advisors. He is also Economic Adviser to Burgan Bank, Kuwait. Over the past 25 years, he has been working in the field of economic analysis, business management and international investments in Europe, the US, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa. Prior to creating Foresight Advisors, Dr. Magnoli Bocchi was Chief Economist and member of the management team and Investment Committee at the Kuwait China Investment Company (KCIC). Before joining KCIC in 2008, he was senior economist with the World Bank, where he was recruited through the Young Professionals Program in 2000. Previously, he held the positions of Research Associate at Harvard University and Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank. He is Qualified Chartered Accountant, Fiscal and Business consultant under Italian jurisdiction (Dottore Commercialista) and has published numerous articles and books. He holds a Ph.D. in Management Sciences from ESADE; an MBA/MIM from CEMS (Bocconi/ESADE); and a BA in Business Administration from Bocconi University. He is also completing a degree in International Law from the University of Parma.

Francisco Quintana is the Head of Strategy of Foresight Advisors. He has over 15 years of experience conducting macroeconomic, financial, policy and business analysis in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Most recently, he was head of research of Asiya Investments, an investment firm specializing in public and private equity in emerging Asia. He has also worked in the economic management unit of the World Bank, the economic affairs department of the government of the city of Madrid and the consulting services unit of IBM. He holds a Master in Development Economics from SOAS, University of London, a Master in Public Administration from IE Business School and a BSc in Economics from the University of Malaga in Spain.

Mert Yildiz is the Head of Research of Foresight Advisors. He has 12 years of experience in the financial services industry working as an Emerging Markets economist. Most recently, he was a Senior Economist covering Europe, Middle East and Africa at the independent research house Roubini Global Economics in London, UK. Formerly, Mert was a senior economist at Burgan Bank in Kuwait, covering the Middle East and Turkey. He also worked at Renaissance Capital in Russia, covering Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Asiya Investments, covering Asia and the GCC, ING Bank and the Economic Policy Research Institute in Turkey. Mert received a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, an M.A. in Statistics from Columbia University and an M.S. in Mathematics from London School of Economics and Political Science.