Hamid Ben Moussa
London, England, United Kingdom · operatorHamid Ben Moussa is a quantitative analyst based in London, England. He has worked as an FX Quantitative Analyst at Barclays Investment Bank since 2018, and before that as an XVA Quant at Grupo Santander in Madrid (2015-2018). He holds a Master of Engineering in Applied Mathematics from Ecole des Ponts ParisTech (2006-2010) and two master's degrees from Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI): Numerical Analysis and Partial Differential Equations (2009-2010) and Probability & Finance / DEA El Karoui (2010-2011). A person named Hamid Ben Moussa represented Morocco at the 2004 International Mathematical Olympiad and won a bronze medal; whether this is the same individual as the London-based quant is not corroborated by any single source.
- Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. A LinkedIn-index record (not a primary-source page) for the profile linked to this identity shows a current FX Quantitative Analyst role at Barclays Investment Bank, London (from 2018) and a prior XVA Quant role at Grupo Santander, Madrid (2015-2018). Both employers genuinely operate in quantitative finance: Barclays Investment Bank runs a large FX/derivatives quant function, and Santander's XVA desk is a derivatives-valuation quant function, so the roles would qualify on employer classification. However the employment record is index-only (LinkedIn enrichment, no primary-source career page), and no source ties this professional profile to the IMO 2004 Moroccan contestant, so identity is not independently corroborated and the verification is left unresolved rather than confirmed.Sep 17, 2026
- Won a bronze medal for Morocco at the 2004 International Mathematical Olympiad (score 20/42; problems 6,7,0,7,0,0), ranked 169th overall - the top Moroccan scorer that year.Jul 1, 2004
- Prior role as XVA Quant at Grupo Santander in Madrid (2015-2018); XVA (valuation adjustment) quant work is a derivatives/FX quantitative-finance function, distinct from a general analytics role.Aug 1, 2015
- Caution on identity: 'Hamid Ben Moussa'/'Hamid Benmoussa' is a common Moroccan name; people-search returns several unrelated individuals (a datacenter consultant in Switzerland, a full-stack developer in Morocco, an IMS manager in Geneva), so name-match alone cannot be treated as evidence of the target identity.Sep 17, 2026
- Academic path is a French quant-finance track: MEng Applied Mathematics at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech (2006-2010) followed by two Paris VI master's degrees including the DEA El Karoui in Probability & Finance (2010-2011), a well-known feeder into quantitative finance; this is consistent with, but does not by itself prove, the professional record.Jun 1, 2011
Competition record
Morocco · IMO