Igor Masten PhD

Igor Masten is a professor of economics at the University of Ljubljana and the managing partner of EconLab. He holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute and has several publications in high-ranked scientific journals in the areas of risk management, banking, econometrics, finance and macroeconomics. Both academically and professionally he specializes in financial analysis, asset pricing, quantitative risk management and economic modelling & intelligence. Before founding EconLab, he was a partner in charge of financial advisory services at Grant Thornton Advisory in Slovenia. He also worked at the Central Bank of Slovenia as Head of Research. In this capacity he supervised the development of Central Bank‘s stress testing and economic modelling capacity. Igor is the Supervisory Board member of SID bank and previously served as vice-president of Supervisory Board of automotive producer Hidria, and as supervisory board member of NLB bank. By combining strong academic background and experience in central and private banking Igor possesses a unique understanding of the business and regulatory environment. He has over 10 years of experience in advising private and public institutions in the areas of economic modelling and intelligence, risk management and anti-trust procedures. His clients range from financial institutions and energy suppliers to public institutions. As project lead, he supported international banking clients in development of IRB models, and EBA stress testing.