David J. Teeters

David J. Teeters

dteeters@gmail.comD.J.Teeters@lse.ac.uklinkedin.com/in/davidteeters

Education

2022 –
London School of EconomicsLondon
Candidate, PhD in Economic History, full-time from 2023
  • Research topic: The Financial Lives of the British, 1694 to 1827. Built a massive novel dataset of named transaction-level data for British financial assets, for all owners, reconstructed to the individual portfolio level.
  • MSc in Economic History (Research), 2022 to 2023. Overall and Dissertation Distinction. Dissertation: Leveraging the National Credit: Bond Markets, Balance Sheets and Eighteenth-Century British War Finance.
2002 – 2004
IESE Business SchoolBarcelona
Master in Business Administration
  • Visiting student, Stern School of Business, New York University, Fall 2003. Concentration in Finance.
2001 – 2002
London School of EconomicsLondon
MSc in Economics
  • Concentration in International Economics. Distinction in Microeconomics, Merit in Econometrics.
1994 – 1999
University of Pittsburgh, Honors CollegePittsburgh
BS in Neuroscience; BA in Political Science, Philosophy and History. Magna cum Laude
  • Phi Beta Kappa; Chancellor's Scholar (full merit scholarship); co-founder, Mongolia Pilot Research Team; full-year study abroad program through forty countries; varsity crew, orchestra, Rhodes Scholar nominee.

Experience

2020 – 2026
IESE Business School, Department of Financial ManagementMadrid
Senior Lecturer in Finance
  • Taught more than 600 sessions across MiM, MBA and EMBA: core capital markets, operational finance and corporate finance.
  • Designed and taught electives and executive programs in leveraged finance, corporate restructuring and macrofinance.
  • Delivered the annual Macrofinance course at the New York campus to around fifty MBAs, on Zoltan Pozsar's Bretton Woods III framework, with leading financial market practitioners and policymakers as guest speakers.
2020 – 2022
Capital-markets advisoryHong Kong
Partner, Corporate Bond Issuance Advisory
  • Created a team to advise Asian corporates on international bond issuance: issuer and project selection, bond framework, external review, issuance, impact reporting.
  • Coordinated collaboration with partner companies on the digital finance agenda, including participation in the MAS sandbox to list digital bonds on exchange, and IoT for impact tracking.
2019 – 2021
Permanent-capital investment groupMadrid
Founding Partner
  • Launched an investment group with a long-term horizon to take controlling interests in private lower-middle-market consumer, industrial and logistics companies, consolidating fragmented industries into platforms for growth.
  • Originated and closed three independent projects, with pipelines for further investment theses and add-ons; deployed more than EUR 20 million in equity across four acquired companies.
2015 – 2019
Private equity platformSingapore
Founding and Managing Partner
  • Founded an investment fund targeting private market assets with a long-term horizon, companies with more than USD 250 million turnover, to consolidate consumer goods industries; anchor funding of USD 100 million from Europe- and Asia-based family offices.
  • Originated more than fifteen deals and led two deal teams, with a primary focus on off-market opportunities in Asia and Spain.
  • Reconstituted the board of directors as chairman of a portfolio company; exited via management buy-out in three years at an IRR above 40 percent.
2014 – 2017
BNP ParibasSingapore
Managing Director, Head of Hedge Fund Sales, G10 Rates Asia
  • Rebuilt the APAC G10 rates business, localizing and globalizing product for regional and global institutional clients.
  • Drove record team production in 2016; primary sales coverage for global and regional hedge funds and asset managers.
2015 – 2016
Asia Fintech SocietySingapore
Founding Member
  • Founded a non-profit to promote the financial technology industry, liaising with regional governments and regulators, start-ups and incumbent institutions to advance the fintech ecosystem in Asia.
2010 – 2014
Barclays CapitalSingapore
Managing Director, Head of Global Rates Sales
  • Managed the sales team, six direct reports and more than twenty across Asia, as head of distribution for global and local Asia rates products, bonds and derivatives; average productivity doubled to above £4.5 million.
  • Designed and executed the strategy to build the core local Asia markets businesses (Southeast Asia, Korea, India, China; £45 million annual profit), orchestrating regional and global trading, research and infrastructure partners, and the dialogue with local regulators.
  • Localized delivery of Barclays' G10 rates product to Asian official institutions and real-money clients.
  • Built relationships with central banks and sovereign wealth funds, macro hedge funds and global real-money clients; more than £110 million in career sales, consistently above rising yearly budgets, top-three-ranked sales coverage.
  • Global chair of the Human Capital Leadership Program in 2012, leading twenty-five senior distribution professionals to define and enhance leadership culture at Barclays.
2004 – 2010
Barclays CapitalLondon
Director, International Institutional Rates Sales
  • Produced £33.5 million in sales against an £8 million budget; number one salesperson globally in Barclays rates distribution in 2009.
2004
Grameen Trust ChiapasChiapas, Mexico
Project Manager, MFI Software Implementation
  • Led a team of three through a full migration to a customized M2 MFI software package for this microfinance organization, from a paper-based accounting and CRM system.
  • Defined output reports to improve control of the business process and allocate resources efficiently.
2003 – 2004
Gabelli Asset ManagementNew York
Research Associate
  • Bottom-up fundamental research and stock picking for an asset manager with more than USD 25 billion under management; initiated coverage of eight companies in precious-metals mining, natural resources and energy.
1999 – 2001
University of Navarra, Faculty of EconomicsPamplona
Associate Professor
  • Constructed and taught the English-language curriculum for Introduction to Microeconomics and Macroeconomics to first-year Spanish students; researched reform of the international financial architecture.

Presentations

2026
  • Alpha: Networks, Information, and Investor Returns. Economic History Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, poster, September 2026. Cambridge Economic and Social History Workshop, October 2026. LSE Economic History Seminar, November 2026, scheduled.
  • Delta: The Fiscal Transfer Reinvestment Channel. LSE Financial History Group workshop, June 2026.

Languages

English, native speaker · Spanish, fluent

Personal interests

Macro investing, reading in finance and history, cycling, mountaineering, rowing, woodworking, pastry, Spanish culture; Eagle Scout.