Rafael Alcantara-Lansberg

Founder / CIO at Harbor Ithaka

Speaker

Mr. Alcantara-Lansberg is the managing director, and Chief Investment Strategist for Harbor Ithaka Investment Consulting a firm he founded in 2006. The firm serves single and multi-family offices in a variety of capacities. The firm also operates an alternative investing platform that serves small to medium sized private banks.

Mr. Alcantara-Lansberg heads the global macro and risk allocation research that guides the group's investment work. Additional areas of additional research include portfolio construction, risk management theory, financial market structure, complex adaptive systems research applied to markets and political systems, and the psychology of financial markets.

Mr. Alcantara-Lansberg’s academic background includes studies in Intellectual History at the American University in Paris and Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as wealth management courses at the Wharton School of Finance. He has been actively involved in the financial markets since 1997, spending the first seven years of his career as an institutional prop desk trader.