Summary
Mark Lauer is a financial markets consultant and seasoned quant with 28 years of global experience building trading businesses and valuation models across FX, commodities, fixed income and equities. He has led quantitative research teams at UBS and architected the first fully automated eFX pricing, execution and risk system at Westpac, helping it become Australia's top-ranked FX bank. With a PhD in Computational Linguistics and a background in computer science and mathematics, he combines deep statistical, data and systems expertise to solve complex market and regulatory challenges. Now based in Basel and working on Australia's energy transition at AEMO Services, he is translating market infrastructure know-how into decarbonisation outcomes. Outside work he’s an unpublished novelist and primary carer of twins, hinting at equal parts creativity and real-world resilience.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
PhD, Computational Linguistics, PhD, Computational Linguistics at Macquarie University
German, auslan