Lawrence Haar
Brighton University School of Business and Law
Dr Lawrence Haar is a Senior Lecturer in Finance with Brighton University School of Business and Law. Preceding his academic career, Dr Haar had a twenty-five-year career which included BP North America, Rand Mines in South Africa and the German energy group, RWE and major banks where he applied his knowledge of commodity markets to risk management. As a Risk Officer for commodities, he was a Director and Managing Director with the following institutions: Bear Stearns-JPM, Credit Suisse and UniCredit. He has as well worked in Saudi Arabia for ARAMCO and been a Director in Audit Assurance for Deloitte. Through his peer-reviewed research, he regularly appears in academic journals, such as Review of Law & Economics, International Review of Financial Analysis, Risks, Energy Policy, Energy Strategy Review and publications of the Institute for Economic Affairs as well as the CATO Institute. He also appears in the financial press, including the Petroleum Economist. He was on the Editorial Board for the Journal Energy Policy and is presently an Editor for the journal Economic Affairs published by the Institute for Economic Affairs and Wiley. He has appeared numerous times on various BBC stations, France24, Capital FM and GBTV discussing energy markets and energy policies. He has a PhD in Financial Economics from the University of Surrey, a Masters from Brown University and a Bachelors from New York University.
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Articles by Lawrence Haar
Managing geopolitical risk in petroleum markets
The authors demonstrate the use of futures and options derivatives to manage risk during extreme conditions in petroleum markets through an analysis of historical shocks to such markets.