François Buet-Golfouse

Global Head of AI and ML for Global Markets at Barclays

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François Buet-Golfouse is the Global Head of AI and Machine Learning for Global Markets at Barclays, where he leads the firm’s AI/ML strategy across sales, trading, and operations. He has built the function from inception into a core part of the Markets platform, delivering production-grade machine learning and generative AI with a focus on commercial impact, scalability, and governance.

His team is responsible for scaling AI across the front office, enabling AI-driven workflows, client engagement, and decision-making at scale. Under his leadership, Markets AI is transitioning from experimentation to industrialised deployment, with a broad pipeline of use cases across optimisation, signal generation, and sales analytics.

Prior to Barclays, he held leadership roles in decision science at JPMorgan Chase.

François’ experience spans markets, retail, M&A, and corporate banking, underpinned by expertise in machine learning, applied mathematics, and quantitative modelling. He holds a PhD in the Mathematics of Machine Learning from University College London and postgraduate degrees from Harvard and Cambridge.