
Sam Livingstone
Head of Risk and Quantitative Strategies
Sam joined Ambienta in 2024 as Head of Risk and Quantitative Strategies, and is based in London.
Prior to Ambienta, Sam has held a number of senior buy-side roles, most recently as the Head of Data Science and Data Engineering at Jupiter Asset Management.
Previously, he was a data scientist in Global Equities (now International Equities) at Citadel. He has also worked as a quant researcher sitting on the Quantitative Equity Products (QEP) investment desk at Schroders and as a quant analyst at Willis Towers Watson.
Sam began his career in 2010 in trading, with positions at IG Group and Ion Trading.
He holds a first-class honours degree in Economics & Business and a Master of Science degree in Economics, Accounting & Finance from the University of Bristol.
He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Sam is currently studying for a PhD in sustainable machine learning within the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, at University College London (UCL).
Sam is also the founder of Eco AI an engineering related scientific and technical start-up focusing on sustainable machine learning for ESG investing (in collaboration with UCL as part of his ongoing PhD studies).
He speaks English (native).