Alexei G. Orlov

Dr. Orlov is an economist with 10 years of experience in financial regulation and 15 years of academic experience.

A former Supervisory Research Economist at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Dr. Orlov has led derivatives markets research and analytics projects and produced advice on the economics of derivatives regulation. He also represented the CFTC in inter-agency and international working groups, including the Inter-Agency Working Group on Treasury Market Surveillance and the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s Hedge Fund Working Group.

Before joining the CFTC, Dr. Orlov had been a Financial Economist at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as well as a detailee to the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), working on a wide range of projects – from market surveillance to rulemaking to data governance. He previously was a professor of economics and taught a variety of undergraduate, MBA, and Executive MBA courses, including money and banking, industrial organization, managerial economics, international finance, and econometrics, among other courses.

Through his research, regulatory, and consulting work, Dr. Orlov has experience with a variety of markets (e.g., equities, fixed income, commodities, foreign exchange), instruments (e.g., stocks, bonds, swaps, futures), and market participants (e.g., hedge funds, dealers, retail investors). His expertise spans multiple areas of economics and finance, including market microstructure, asset pricing, monetary economics, and econometrics. Dr. Orlov’s research has received several awards and has been published in the Journal of Alternative Investments, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Futures Markets, Quarterly Journal of Finance, and other refereed outlets.