Jens Nordvig — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Founder & CEO of Exante Data Inc.
Co-founder & CEO of MarketReader.
Developed a framework to quantify the cost of Euro break-up, winning a Wolfson Economics Prize finalist award.
Led real-time COVID-19 analysis using alternative data sources, utilized by Imperial College London.
Author of 'The Fall of the Euro: Reinventing the Eurozone and the Future of Global Investing' (2013).
Researched the dimensions and consequences of 'dark' emerging market debt.

Biography

Jens Nordvig, born April 19, 1974, in Aarhus, Denmark, is an economist specializing in foreign exchange markets, macroeconomic policy, and data science. He is the founder and CEO of Exante Data Inc. and co-founder and CEO of MarketReader. His professional goal is to create institutional-grade data and analytics through Exante Data and offer market intelligence via MarketReader.

Nordvig gained recognition for his contributions to the Euro break-up debate in 2011–2012.