Core Team

Founder and CEO
Sassan Ghahramani is Founder and CEO of SGH Macro Advisors, LLC, an exclusive macro-policy intelligence firm targeted to hedge funds and senior international financial policymakers. SGH Macro Advisors was founded in 2009 and is based in Greenwich, CT, maintaining affiliates also in Washington DC, Brussels, London and Tokyo...

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Chief U.S. Economist
Tim Duy, author of “Tim Duy’s Fed Watch” and Professor of Economics at the University of Oregon, joined SGH Macro Advisors as Chief Economist in 2021, a role in which he continues to produce the enormously popular Fed Watch under the SGH banner. Professor Duy received his B.A. in Economics in 1991 from the University of Puget Sound, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics in 1998 from the University of Oregon. Following graduate school, Tim worked in Washington, D.C. for the United States Dep...

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Director of Central Bank Policy Research
Regina Schleiger is a central bank expert known internationally for her experience and accuracy in providing predictive economic policy advice and political risk assessment. She joins SGH Macro Advisors as Director of Central Bank Policy Research to expand the firm’s central bank coverage across new institutions and jurisdictions, as well as to further enhance its existing US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank coverage...

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Global Macro Strategist
Tracey Bennett joined SGH Macro Advisors in April 2013 as their Global Macro policy Strategist. She provides the group with timely updates on economic data, central bank policy, geopolitics and relevant public information coupled with market pricing, trends, themes, and directional views.

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Managing Director
Rachel Roosevelt joined SGH with extensive Latin America experience. Prior to SGH she worked at Komercia, a think tank based in Guatemala designed to increase investment in Central America by providing political, social, and economic information to companies and institutions and by increasing trade flows in the region. Roosevelt then worked as a Cultural Coordinator for the Mexican Embassy in Guatemala...

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Director
Shanice West joined SGH in 2023 as Director, expanding on her experience in building partnerships and focusing on strategic growth. West launched her career as a Financial Integration Intern at the Pentagon. After three rotations in the Department of Defense, West decided to pursue her passion for community building and learning and pivoted into education as a STEM teacher in New York City. After spending six years in the classroom, she transitioned to an International Boarding School...

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