Arturs Kanepajs🔸

Experience

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  BICEPS

  May 2006 - Jun 2007

  Research Assistant
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  Bank of Latvia

  Jun 2008 - Jul 2010

  Economist

  Analysis of balance of payments and international investment position.

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  Center for European Law and Economics

  Oct 2010 - Feb 2012

  Research Assistant

  Analysis of the capital costs and competition analysis in the energy sector.

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  The Treasury of the Republic of Latvia

  Sept 2013 - Mar 2016

  Senior Expert

  Quantitative analysis for new issuances, buybacks, and related hedges.

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  Econophysica

  Mar 2016 - Mar 2018

  Resource planning and project oversight for approx. 10 model validation projects (contracting for a top tier investment bank). Market risk and operational risk model validation.

  • Project Manager / Head of Practice (Model Validation)

    Jul 2017 - Mar 2018

  • Quantitative Model Validation Analyst

    Mar 2016 - Jun 2017
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  Swedbank

  Nov 2018 - Jan 2022

  Quantitative Risk Analyst

  Identified, assessed, monitored and reported market risks. Maintained and developed risk models (VaR, FRTB), coordinated submissions for external stress tests.

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  Freelance

  Jun 2023 - Jul 2024

  Independent Researcher / Freelance

  Examples:- AI-Driven Economic Safety Nets, an AI Safety Camp project (see Publications section)- Cloud compute governance for the EU, a BlueDot Impact Alignment Course research project (see Publications section)- Standards Case Study: Basel III, contracting for Open Philanthropy (see Publications section)

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  ERA Cambridge

  Jul 2024 - Aug 2024

  AI Technical Governance Research Fellow

  Research on AI multilingual capabilities and multilingual jailbreaks, see Publications.

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  TRACE LAB

  Sept 2024 - now

  Founder and CEO

  An AI evaluations initiative specializing in social and economic impact assessment.

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  Hive

  Nov 2024 - now

  Principal Investigator

  Developing an animal ethics benchmark for LLMs.