People

Sarah Carter is Executive Director of the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Endowment Asset Management, and previously set up and managed the Master of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School. Before that, she worked for Plan International and for the United Nations Association. She has undertaken PhD coursework and research at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and was awarded an MA with distinction in International Studies by Durham University and a BA (Hons) in Psychology by the University of Hertfordshire.

Ellen works as a researcher at the University of Cambridge in a collaboration between the Centre for Endowment Asset Management and the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Her work focuses on addressing climate change risk in the investment policies and practices of institutional investors. She holds a BA in English literature from Harvard College, an MSc in Nature, Society, and Environmental Policy from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in economics education from the University of Cambridge.

Dr Rasheed Saleuddin is a post-doc at the Cambridge Judge Business School’s Centre for Endowment Asset Management. His policy-focused works include a Palgrave Macmillan book on financial regulation, Regulating Securitized Products: A Post Crisis Guide, while his first academic book, The Government of Markets, on the role of the US government in the making of modern capital markets, will be published by Palgrave in 2019. Rasheed’s academic and professional interests currently lie in examining the theories, past experiences and current policy dilemmas involved with the intersection of state regulation and policy responses, as well as in alternative finance. Before completing his PhD in history at the University of Cambridge as a fully-funded CERF Scholar, he was a hedge fund manager at the activist Canadian investment firm, West Face Capital. Before 2008 he specialised in regulatory solutions for banks all over the world. He also holds a masters degree in regulation, with distinction, from the LSE, and is eligible to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He is currently an early stage investor in and advisor to fintech companies.