Invite: Barclays Macro Symposium – London

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Invite: Barclays Macro Symposium – London

Finance and Banking. Zornitsa holds a PhD with honors in

Economics and Finance from Bocconi University in Italy.

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Themistoklis (Themos) Fiotakis is the Global Head of FX

and EM Macro Strategy at Barclays. In this capacity, he is

responsible for FX forecasts and strategy views across DM

and EM currencies as well as local EM rates. Over the last

20 years, Themos has held senior positions in sell-side and

buy-side institutions. Before Barclays, Themos was the

Head of Research at Glen Point Capital, a macro fund with

an EM tilt. Prior to that, Themos ran FX and Rates research

at UBS Investment Bank and before that he was

responsible for EM FX Research at Goldman Sachs.

Themos studied Finance and Economics at London School

of Economics and Political Science at the University of

Piraeus in Greece.

Jon Hill, CFA, is the Head of US inflation market strategy at

Barclays, leading the top-ranked US inflation strategy

team in the 2025 Extel Global Fixed-Income Research

survey. Jon has more than ten years of experience in the

public sector and as a sell-side strategist, having joined

Barclays in 2020 from BMO, where he was a US rates and

macro strategist, and previously worked at the Federal

Reserve Bank of New York and US Treasury. At the

individual level, he has been ranked and/or runner-up in a

variety of Extel/Institutional Investor surveys, including in

Fixed-Income Strategy (2019), US Rates Strategy (2019), US

Short Duration Strategy (2020), European Inflation-Linked

Bonds (2023), and US inflation strategy (2025). Jon earned

a BA from the University of Michigan and an MPA/ID from

the Harvard Kennedy School.

Michael McLean is a Director and Public Policy senior

analyst, covering major US legislation, regulation, policy