Omar Kidwai

Omar Kidwai is a London-based quantitative developer at Rokos Capital Management, per his professional profile. He studied Natural Sciences (MA) at the University of Cambridge and attended Karachi Grammar School in Pakistan. His profile lists earlier roles at BlackRock (Summer Analyst, Analyst, Associate) and a data-science internship at NexDegree. As a schoolboy he represented Pakistan at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2018, earning an Honourable Mention with 9 points.

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. The professional-profile index/provider lists a genuine past/present employment record for 'Omar Kidwai' - 'Quant Dev' at Rokos Capital Management (start 2025-03, ongoing), plus prior roles at BlackRock (Summer Analyst, Analyst, Associate) and a Data Science Internship at NexDegree. Two of these employers clearly operate in quantitative finance: Rokos Capital Management is a London global macro/rates hedge fund (founded 2015 by Chris Rokos, ~$17bn AUM), and BlackRock is a global asset manager with large systematic/quantitative strategies. However, CONFIRMED requires an actual role/internship AND a supported identity: the employment record is index-only (the LinkedIn profile is not publicly readable and no primary page corroborates titles or dates), and the identity link between the working 'Omar Kidwai' and the IMO 2018 contestant 'Omar Muhammad Kidwai' rests on a matching name plus a Pakistan-origin Cambridge education (Karachi Grammar School) rather than a direct cross-link. Because both the employment evidence and the identity are thus not independently primary-sourced, the verification is UNRESOLVED rather than CONFIRMED. No conflicting evidence was found that would make it NOT CONFIRMED.Sep 17, 2026
• The employment record (Quant Dev at Rokos Capital Management; BlackRock Summer Analyst, Analyst, Associate; Data Science Intern at NexDegree) originates from a professional profile index/provider enrichment, not from a publicly readable primary page - the LinkedIn profile is not accessible without login and no independent primary source corroborates the dates or titles. Treat these as index-only claims.Sep 17, 2026
• Identity alignment: the professional profile 'Omar Kidwai' shares the given name, family name and a Pakistan-origin, Cambridge education (Karachi Grammar School -> University of Cambridge) with the IMO contestant 'Omar Muhammad Kidwai' (Pakistan, IMO 2018), supporting but not conclusively proving they are the same person.Jul 1, 2018
• Rokos Capital Management is a London-based global macro/rates hedge fund founded in 2015 by Chris Rokos, ~$17bn AUM (2024) - a genuine quantitative/macro trading employer, so the listed 'Quant Dev' title maps to real quant-finance work rather than a name-only match.May 1, 2024
• Represented Pakistan at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2018 and earned an Honourable Mention with 9 points (P1 7, P2 1, P4 1); listed on the official PAK 2018 team roster joined with the team's joint rank of 391.Jul 1, 2018
• Education: MA in Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge; A Levels and O Levels at Karachi Grammar School (per profile index).
• BlackRock is a global asset manager with major quantitative/systematic investment businesses (e.g. its Systematic/quantitative equity strategies and the Aladdin platform), so analyst roles there are plausibly but not confirmed to be quantitative; the index lists only generic 'Analyst/Associate' titles with no dates or desk.
• A Karachi Grammar School student named Omar Muhammad Kidwai appears in a Pakistan Kangaroo (IKMC) gold-medal-winners list, consistent with an early Olympiad-maths track; unverified as the same person and secondary-source only.