Economic Systems Foresight Lead

The Economic Systems Foresight Lead is a senior economic specialist within CFA Institute's Macro Systems & Foresight function, translating major structural disruptions into coherent economic and macro-financial interpretations.

What You Will Do

The role focuses on the economic implications of material structural changes, such as artificial intelligence, private markets, and geopolitical fragmentation, while contributing to longer-horizon analysis as new disruptions emerge.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The Economic Systems Foresight Lead requires strong economic and quantitative grounding, systems thinking, intellectual independence, and the ability to translate complex economic dynamics into clear implications for non-specialist and senior audiences.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in macroeconomics, political economy, economic systems analysis or a closely related field.
• Strong understanding of how economic systems interact with financial markets, institutions, capital allocation, and investment practice.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze structural economic change rather than relying primarily on cyclical or short-term forecasting frameworks.
• Strong understanding of economic transmission mechanisms and ability to construct coherent pathways, regime logics, and conditional interpretations under uncertainty.
• Quantitative fluency and ability to work critically with macroeconomic, financial, capital-flow, and cross-country data.
• Strong empirical judgment, including the ability to distinguish what available evidence supports from what remains hypothesis or uncertainty.
• Strong systems thinking, connecting economic dynamics with technological, geopolitical, regulatory, market, and institutional change.
• Ability to identify second- and third-order effects, critical assumptions, and conditions under which economic relationships may change.
• Ability to translate complex economic developments into clear questions, hypotheses, scenarios, and implications for non-specialist audiences and other subject-matter experts.
• Strong collaborative skills and ability to operate effectively within a multidisciplinary Foresight team, contributing specialist expertise to shared questions rather than operating as an independent economics function.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to engage constructively with senior internal stakeholders, practitioners, policymakers, academics, and other external experts.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex economic dynamics clearly and concisely.

Benefits

• Health coverage
• Generous time off
• Competitive retirement plans
• Flexible work options
• Wellbeing and development programs