Jesse McDougall

Jesse McDougall is the Head of Export Finance for North America and the Caribbean at the UK government's Export Credit Agency, UK Export Finance. Prior to this she was the CFO of Drillform. She co-founded and was the CFO of Palomar Fund, a quantitative hedge fund. She is a Visiting Professor at King's College London and Queen Mary, University of London, since 2009. She worked in Corporate Finance for BMO Capital Markets in Canada and in London, working on advisory teams for large-cap Canadian companies in the early 2000s. Jesse was a Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Barclays Capital on the Equity Derivatives Proprietary Trading team in 2005, researching and trading a variety of alpha strategies including long/short, event-driven and quantitative futures trading. She studied Mathematics and Finance at McGill University in her undergraduate degree (Great Distinction) and completed a Master's in Finance at London Business School (Distinction).