Adam Muhtar

NLP + ML + Econ

Welcome to my personal webpage — thanks for stopping by!

About me

I’m a machine learning practitioner specialising in natural language processing (NLP) and unstructured data. I’m currently a Senior NLP Scientist and member of the AI team at Trafigura, where we build AI-powered systems for trading research and operations across physical commodities and derivatives markets. Views expressed here are my own.

Before Trafigura, my career spanned central banking, financial regulation, and economic research across the UK and Malaysia. I’ve worked at the Bank of England, the University of Cambridge, Securities Commission Malaysia, CIMB Bank, and Khazanah Research Institute.

Education

Get in touch

  • Based in London, splitting time with Cambridge.
  • My first name is Musaddiq, but I go by my middle name, Adam.
  • Reach me via email or Twitter/X.

Selected writing & publications

Leveraging language models for prudential supervision
with Dragos Gorduza
Bank Underground

Assessing policy co-ordination in government: Text and network analysis of the UK’s economic strategies
with Diane Coyle
European Journal of Political Economy
Code & Data

Levelling up policies and the failure to learn
with Diane Coyle
Contemporary Social Science

You’re not speaking my language: policy discontinuity and coordination gaps between the UK’s national economic strategies and its place-based policies
with Diane Coyle
Bennett Institute for Public Policy Working Paper
Code & Data

UK’s Industrial Policy: Learning from the Past?
with Diane Coyle
Productivity Insights Paper No. 002, The Productivity Institute

Financial Development: Catalysing Economic Development in Malaysia
with Allen Ng
Box article in “Securities Commission Malaysia Annual Report 2019”, pp. 104–108

Structure of the Malaysian Economy: An Input-Output Analysis
with Alyssa Farha Jasmin, Gregory Ho Wai Son & Aidonna Jan Ayub
Khazanah Research Institute Report

Introduction to Malaysia’s Trade Policies
with Nungsari Ahmad Radhi & Adibah Abdulhadi
Chapter 2 of “Malaysia’s Trade Governance at a Crossroads”, Pierre Sauvé (ed.), pp. 45–74

Reclaiming Malaysia’s Public Finances: The Case for an Independent Fiscal Institution in Malaysia
with Allen Ng
Policy brief submitted to Malaysia’s Council of Eminent Persons

Why Trade Matters: Trade Issues in Non-communicable Diseases, Essential Medicines and Education
with Alyssa Farha Jasmin, Nazihah Muhamad Noor, Nur Thuraya Sazali & Aidonna Jan Ayub
Khazanah Research Institute Report