Dr. Demir Bektić is Head of Multi Asset Solutions and a member of the Investment Committee at Commerzbank AG. After completing his studies in Business Informatics at the University of Mannheim, he earned his PhD in factor-based investment strategies at TU Darmstadt, where he was also a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Following his initial positions in portfolio management & trading at Lupus alpha and as a portfolio manager at a single family office, he became Executive Director and Head of Quant Fixed Income at Deka Investment. Additionally, he served as Managing Director at IQ-KAP, the Institute for Quantitative Capital Market Research of DekaBank. Subsequently, he managed a hedge fund at ansa capital management and later became Head of Portfolio Management at the multi-family office FINVIA, where he was a member of the Investment Committee. He is an Adjunct Professor of Finance at the International University of Monaco and at the Institute of Management Technology Dubai. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Miami and a lecturer at TU Darmstadt. He regularly presents his research at international conferences and received the Bernstein Fabozzi / Jacobs Levy Outstanding Article Award from the Journal of Portfolio Management for a publication on Factor Investing. Furthermore, he serves as an independent expert on the jury of the German Alternative Investment Association (BAI) for awarding the annual BAI Science Award and is a reviewer for numerous academic finance journals.