
Dastan Hamad
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About me
Lead Portfolio Manager at Goldman Sachs
Education

De Nieuwe Veste
2006 - 2012Pre-university education, science and engineeringActivities and Societies: Schoolparty committee Electives: Management & Organisation and Computer Science

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2016 - 2019Master of Science (MSc) Econometrics 8.4/10 (4.0/4.0)Activities and Societies: Econometric Game 2018 Thesis: Monte Carlo Likelihood Estimation for Univariate and Multivariate Stochastic Volatility Models.

Universitat de Barcelona
2015 - 2016Extra curriculum Business & Economics
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2012 - 2016Bachelor of Science (BSc) Econometrics & Operations ResearchActivities and Societies: Study association Kraket: Caseday committee, Travel committee, Buddy Programme VU, Member of the Ambassador Team VU Thesis: Do more flexible models outperform less flexible models? (E)GARCH-EGB2 models applied to exchange rates.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2016 - 2019Master of Science (MSc) Finance 7.8/10 (3.83/4)Activities and Societies: Stichting Move Thesis: A Portfolio Perspective on Environmental, Social and Governance Characteristics of Stocks.
Experience

Triple A - Risk Finance
Apr 2017 - Jul 2018Aspirant Junior ConsultantDeveloped a dashboard in R where we could compare defined contribution providers.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Sept 2017 - Aug 2018Student-assessor at the board of VU School of Business and EconomicsThe faculty board is the governing body of the faculty. The board consists of a professional dean, a research portfolio holder, a teaching portfolio holder, and a director of operations. The director of operations also has charge of the faculty office. A student is an advisory member of the Faculty Board. The Board is accountable to the Executive Board.• As a student-assessor of the faculty board I was part of the bi-weekly faculty board meetings where I advised on educational and student matters.• I was part of the selection committee of the dean of our faculty together with the president of the university, faculty board members, head of departments and deans of other faculties.• Quarterly meetings with the president of the university and student-assessors of other faculties to advise on educational and student matters.• I was in close contact with faculty study associations and the faculty student council to be up-to-date on student matters. Show less

ABN AMRO Pensioenfonds
Sept 2018 - Feb 2022Investment Manager• The investment management team of ABN AMRO Pension Fund is responsible for the investments of approximately 35 billion euros. I was responsible for the financial risk management of the investments, which includes daily risk management and compliance, developing the risk management policies (FX, concentration risk, counterparty risk, liquidity risk, climate risk, etc.) and advising the board on risk management topics.• Managing the relationship with the supplier of the risk management platform (Aladdin). Responsible for the implementation of portfolios, maintainance and improvements of the risk management platform. Advising colleagues on how to use the platform.• Leaded the transition from working in Excel to the programming language R within the investment management team. Leaded a project where we transfered our return portfolio optimization tool from excel/VBA to R.• Developed an ESG report in PowerBI for our board. Show less

NN Investment Partners
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023Strategic Advisor
Goldman Sachs
Jan 2023 - nowVice President - Lead Portfolio Manager
Licenses & Certifications

Spanish language course
Estudios Hispánicos - Universitat de BarcelonaSept 2015
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Dastan HamadWinner of the Econometric Forecast Challenge 2017 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics Jun 2017
- Awarded to Dastan HamadCertificate of Top Performance. Rank hotels by Data Mining Techniques. The goal of this competition is to provide the best possible ranking of hotels for each user of the Expedia website. Vrije Universiteit May 2017
Languages
- neNederlands
- enEngels
- spSpaans
- koKoerdisch
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