Michael Haigh is managing director and global head of fixed income and commodities research for Societe Generale and is based in London. Previously, Michael was the commodity economist at PIMCO after leaving Societe Generale as the head of commodities research in early 2023. Haigh has also held the role of global head of commodities research at Standard Chartered Bank, based in Singapore and prior to joining Standard Chartered Bank, Haigh held the positions of managing director at K2 Advisors LLC, a global hedge fund of funds where he focused on commodity research/investing. Haigh also spent several years as the associate chief economist at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Haigh began his career in academia and held a position as a tenured associate professor of economics at the University of Maryland, US. Haigh has taught graduate (MBA) and undergraduate derivative courses at several universities including NYU Stern School of Business, Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University and supervised numerous Ph.D. dissertations on the commodity and financial markets. He has published numerous scholarly research papers on the commodity and derivative markets in several leading journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Business, Journal of Futures Markets and the Journal of Applied Econometrics. Michael holds a PhD in economics with a minor in statistics from North Carolina State University.
