Alex Lipton

Alex Lipton - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Alex Lipton is a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Global Quantitative Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and a Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London. Prior to his current role, he was a Managing Director and Head of Capital Structure Quantitative Research at Citadel Investment Group in Chicago; he has also worked at Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust. Previously, Alex was a Full Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Consultant at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Lomonosov Moscow State University.

His current interests include robust derivatives pricing, CVA and related topics, as well as technical trading strategies. In 2000 Alex was awarded the first Quant of the Year Award by Risk Magazine. Alex is the author of two books (Magnetohydrodynamics and Spectral Theory and Mathematical Methods for Foreign Exchange) and the editor of three more including, most recently, The Oxford Handbook of Credit Derivatives (jointly with Andrew Rennie). He has published numerous research papers on hydrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, astrophysics, and financial engineering. Alex has given dozens of invited lectures at leading universities and major conferences worldwide. He is the patron of the 14-10 Club at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Numerix Advisory Board member, and an Associate Editor of three other scientific journals.

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