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Biography

Nikolaos Dimakis

Nikolaos Dimakis

Quantitative ESG Developer

Nikolaos Dimakis joined the international business of Federated Hermes in 2017 and is a Quantitative ESG Developer working in the Responsibility Office. His role focuses on the design and implementation of quantitative tools to facilitate the integration of ESG and active ownership across the engagers and portfolio managers. This involves using data that span the whole ESG spectrum such as climate models, carbon emissions, corporate governance, and reporting on material risks both from an engager’s and portfolio manager’s perspective.

Nikolaos joined from Barclays Investment Bank, where he was part of the quantitative analytics team, focusing on credit risk modelling. Prior to this, Nikolaos was a quantitative analyst at Prius Partners responsible for implementing the ESG analytics platform for asset managers and asset owners. Nikolaos began his career in finance as a risk analyst at La Fayette Investment Management, where he was responsible for the risk modelling and reporting of the company's investments. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Patras in Greece, an MSc in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, and an MPhil from Imperial College London in Electrical & Electronic Engineering.