Although now retired, my career remains dual and global. First, after obtaining a PhD in Economics (1984) from Columbia University, I’ve been Senior Economist on “Wall Street” for both the US’ Federal Reserve and Japan’s Nomura, and Chief US Economist for Dutch ING Bank. Second, I’ve been an academic Professor of Banking and Finance at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (where I co-designed and organized two academic financial trading rooms), at Adelaide and Deakin Universities in Australia and at Kent State University in Ohio, where I co-designed the new M.Sc. in Financial Engineering and a second derivatives trading room. Six years ago, I’ve taught for the London School of Economics in Kazakhstan and was a visiting professor of financial management at the Peter Drucker Graduate School of Management at the Claremont Graduate University. As a Professor of Finance at the University of Lethbridge, I was the leading member of the Dean’s 3-member Executive Committee to successfully realize our $0.7mln academic Trading Room, with a five-year budget of another $0.7mln. Its Grand Opening by Premier Ed Stelmach took place on October 21, 2010. I’ve published two books, on COMPUTATIONAL FINANCE and on FINANCIAL MARKET RISK: MEASUREMENT ANDANALYSIS, plus 38 professional articles. I’ve designed and taught a brand-new course on financial trading and market micro-structure, using internet-based trading room simulators and I’ve been developing another M.Sc. in Financial Engineering program, focused on commodity, energy and weather markets, i.e., products relevant to the Province of Alberta. I’ve supervised MA, MSc and PhD theses in Finance and Economics. My avocations were: strategic investments and real options, financial risk management and engineering, model identification from high frequency financial data, and research of international financial market micro-structures. My goal was: visualization for a real-time financial market risk alerting system. I'm now homeschooling our son Arman in a Christian Classical Liberal Arts Education. In other words, I'm now a Magister in an Upper-Grammar School, at home!
Listed skills include Economics, Financial Modeling, Econometrics, Statistics, and 44 others.