William Shields
Trustee
William is a Senior Manager within a “Top 4” Accounting Firm where he works within a Financial Risk Management team, specialising as a data scientist with experience in risk modelling from a wide range of large financial institutions. His areas of focus include stress testing of complex (usually financial) systems and value-at-risk measurement. Typically this includes implicit or explicit connections to core underlying macroeconomic drivers and the relationships between them. More recently he has started supporting financial institutions with climate change impact assessments in line with increasing regulatory emphasis.
Selected EfD blog posts
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16th June 2023
Can Machine Learning be used to help rural communities adapt to Climate Change?
William Shields, Celia Petty & Dai Clegg Evidence-for-Development (EfD) aims to reduce poverty by improving the quality and effectiveness of livelihood information available to decision makers at every level, from local to global, and to researchers working across multiple disciplines . Focusing currently on sub-Saharan Africa, EfD combines high tech innovation with on-the-ground experience. We...
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23rd September 2015
Banking on Evidence for Development – a month in the life of a volunteer
It’s August 2013 and I’m about as broke as a ‘banker’ in London can be. I had eagerly taken up my first position in the big city: interning at RBS’ risk department. That’s right, I had made it to the big time… And then rent happened… And bills… So with accrued holiday time but no...