Name: Dr Paul Wilmott

Position: Founder of Wilmott Associates

Biography: Dr Paul Wilmott is a researcher, consultant, lecturer and author specializing in quantitative finance, risk management and derivatives. He was the founding partner of the volatility arbitrage hedge fund Caissa Capital which managed $170 million where his role included forecasting, derivatives pricing and risk management. Paul is the author of the best selling Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance (2007) and Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance (2006). He is praised for presenting complex topics so they are accessible to everyone. The Financial Times has called him a ‘cult derivatives lecturer’.

Dr Wilmott is the proprietor of Wilmott magazine and Wilmott.com, a popular quantitative finance community website. Moreover he founded the Diploma in Mathemathical Finance at Oxford University and is the Course Director for the Certificate in Quantitative Finance at 7city Learning which offers training for the financial services industry. Dr Wilmott is a member of the Physics in Finance Committee of the Institute of Physics, and is on the editorial boards of several academic journals..

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