Jamil Baz is a managing director at PIMCO. Prior to that, he was a senior managing director and chief investment strategist of the Man Group. Previously, he was a managing director in macro proprietary trading at Goldman Sachs in London and global chief investment strategist at Deutsche Bank. Earlier in his career, he was a managing director at Lehman Brothers and worked in derivatives and liability management at the World Bank. He holds an AM and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, an SM degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a master's degree from the London School of Economics. He has taught mathematical finance at Oxford University for 20 years. Helen Guo is an executive vice president at PIMCO, co-heading client solutions and analytics for the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions. She specializes in research and modeling to provide customized solutions to clients on asset allocation and risk management. She is a member of the Research Committee of the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (Q Group). Guo holds a PhD in economics and a master's degree in statistics from Stanford University. Erol Hakanoglu is a senior advisor at PIMCO. He is managing partner of Hakanoglu Quantitative Strategies LLC, an analytic advisory firm he founded. Previously, he was at Goldman Sachs for 22 years, where he was a managing director and global head of capital markets strategies, and later at Lehman Brothers and Barclays as a managing director and global head of enterprise risk management. He is a member of the steering committee of the financial engineering program at the University of California Berkeley's Haas Business School and has been a guest lecturer at Harvard, Columbia, and Berkeley. Dr. Hakanoglu holds a Ph.D. and a master's degree from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree from Columbia University.