Francisco Romero is an experienced professional with a broad track record in asset management.Reporting to the Global CIO, he is responsible for the homogeneity of the investment process across desks and geographies, supervising performance quality and risk budgets. He also represents the investment team in key projects and committees and leads the project management department and the trading desk. In this position he has had an active role in the launch of state-of-the art investment solutions for BBVA AM.Before, he was Head of ETF, Index and Overseas Capital Protected Funds where was responsible for the portfolio management of BBVA's Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and Index mutual funds in all countries and Capital protected funds in Latam. He was also in charge of designing the quantitative hedging strategies followed by all passive investment teams (including Spain).Prior to this role, Francisco served as risk manager at BBVA where he designed and implemented both quantitative measures and qualitative control procedures of risk across the Asset Management, Insurance and Alternative Investment units of BBVA.Francisco holds a Master in Risk from the HTI Escuela de Finanzas of Madrid and a Master of Science in Actuarial and Financial Science from the University of Extremadura in Cáceres, Spain. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Financial Risk Manager (FRM), Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and a member of the CFA Society of Spain and the CAIA Iberia Chapter.He has been teacher of quantitative methods for the Master in Finance of the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE).Francisco works and lives with his family in Madrid, Spain