Birol Unal

Dr. Birol Unal is a capital markets and quantitative finance expert with more than 25 years of experience spanning quantitative valuation, risk management, front-to-back trading business oversight, and business transformation at leading global investment banks.

He began his banking career in 1999 at Credit Suisse First Boston in the Quantitative Valuations Group within Finance. In 2003, he joined Morgan Stanley, where he led the Global Fixed-Income Model Control Group and subsequently served as European Business Unit Risk Manager. He moved to UBS in 2009, where he held a series of senior roles, including Operating Officer for the Global Structured Rates Desk and Co-Operating Officer for the Global Rates and Credit business. Most recently, he led the Business Analysis team within the UBS Investment Bank Change division.

Birol holds a PhD in Quantitative Finance from Imperial College London, as well as an MSc and BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Imperial College London and Middle East Technical University, Ankara, respectively.

Teaches:

Implementing Quantitative Techniques
Risk Management in Finance