 In partnership with AXA, SOAS University of London intends to create the AXA Chair of Global Finance to be held by Professor Victor Morindi and funded by the AXA Research Fund, SOAS and other funders. Hello, my name is Victor Morindi. I would like to talk about the AXA Chair of Global Finance at SOAS University of London. The chair will enable us to, firstly, support a significant step change in the development of research on global finance within the School of Finance and Management, focusing on mega-trends in finance that will shape the world economy over the next 30 years considering China's emerging economic prowess, recent higher growth in Africa, new financial innovations, and the relative position of the EU and the US. Secondly, transform the School of Finance and Management into a leading point of reference on global financial trends with an entrenched capacity to identify pathways to national and global financial resilience and growth, thus enabling the School to become a global centre of excellence on international financial systems and their impact on the global economy. The conceptual framework for my scientific work is inspired by the flow of funds, the financial flows among agents in one economy and with the rest of the world. So I will model and monitor the dynamics of mega-trends in global finance. For example, the step change into digital financial innovations, even at the household level, such as Muppesa from Kenya to the rest of the world, and the evolving use of Bitcoin as a quoted currency on world financial markets. Of course, future trends are unknown. That is how the trends evolve, sometimes causing financial structures to mutate. Without the knowledge of the mega-trends, agents cannot price future income streams well or develop appropriate policies or regulations, and consequently, crises will be unavoidable and unforeseen. Our scientific work will study how these mega-trends affect the behaviour of households, the decisions by company executives, the output and pricing performance of financial institutions, the sensitivity of financial markets, the reaction by governments, and public and private external financial flows. The flow of finance framework has been researched for several decades now. With Nobel Prize winners such as Richard Stone and James Tobin paving the way, we will extend this work in four new dimensions. Firstly, the theoretical underpinnings will emphasise the role of uncertainty in influencing the behaviour of agents, for example household portfolio decisions under uncertainty. Secondly, we will introduce non-price or institutional factors in two flow of funds analysis, e.g. political risk. Thirdly, we will construct huge flow of funds datasets to predict, identify, and monitor mega-trends in the group of finance. Fourthly, we will build from national to global scenarios. I think these four aspects are new and innovative. In order to achieve the aims and objectives of the AXA Chair in Global Finance and also to set up the SOAS Centre for Global Finance, I will collaborate with top scholars and mentor young scholars at SOAS and Globally. No doubt what will come in handy here is my recent experience at the founding director of the African Development Institute at the African Development Bank 2011-2014 on a three-year leave of absence from the University of Birmingham. Thank you for watching.