Charlotte Werger
Head of Data Science, Van Lanschot Kempen

Charlotte Werger is head of data science at at Van Lanschot Kempen, where she’s challenged to transform the wealth manager and private bank from a traditional company into a cutting-edge data-driven one. Charlotte works at the intersection of artificial intelligence and finance. After completing her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence, she was a portfolio manager and quant researcher at BlackRock and Man AHL in London, where she was part of an early movement in asset management that initiated the application of machine learning models to predict financial markets. She then worked for ASI Data Science, helping its clients build AI applications and software. Charlotte is internationally active in the field of data science and AI education. She’s an instructor at Datacamp, mentors data science students on the Springboard platform, and holds an advisory role at Ryelore AI.