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RACHEL SCHUTT
TOP 10 – AI LEADERS IN FINANCIAL SERVICES

RACHEL SCHUTT

ROLE: HEAD OF AI LABS COMPANY: BLACKROCK
Rachel leads BlackRock’ s AI Labs, a central hub dedicated to applying artificial intelligence to high-stakes financial problems and investment use cases. She is co-author of the influential book Doing Data Science and previously served as Chief Data Scientist at News Corp. Rachel’ s central focus is on formalising rigorous data science best practices to improve alpha generation, strengthen risk management and scale responsible, high-quality analytics across the firm’ s global investment and research functions.

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