Luisa Pires – Bank of England

Luisa founded, and now leads, the Analytics Enablement Hub (AEH), which sits in the Chief Data Office of the Bank of England. This team is responsible for setting and implementing the Analytics Strategy for the organisation. This includes business owning the central technology investments in the Data Science space, namely the Data and Analytics Platform (the central data repository for Analytics) and the Bank’s Analytics and Visualisation toolkit. The AEH is also composed of a team of Data Scientists that partner with business areas to help make the most of these new technologies, methods and tools. Before working in the Bank, Luisa worked for Accenture AI Centre of Excellence in Barcelona, managing managed global projects leading large teams of data scientists across Europe and Asia with focus on using advanced predictive analytics and optimization across business sectors. Luisa has earned her PhD in Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge.