Professor Ron Bird has a master’s degree in economics and has taught at several Australian Universities as well as holding visiting appointments at Universities in both the US and Europe. More recently, he was appointed as Director of the Paul Woolley Centre for Capital Market Dysfunctionality. He also has extensive industry experience: he was in charge of Towers Perrin’s asset consulting practice in Asia as well as their global finance unit; he was a Director and in charge of quantitative investments services at Westpac; and he established two highly successful funds management firms, GMO (Australia) and MIR Investment Management.

Ron’s teaches corporate finance and investments, and his research interests include: price formation within equity markets; economic and social consequences of market mispricings; the contribution of financial institutions to the functioning of markets; behavioural finance; corporate social responsibility... More>>

Carl holds two PhD degrees, one in Applied Mathematics and the other in Economics. He took up the position of Professor of Finance at the University of Technology, Sydney in 1989, and is currently Professor of Quantitative Finance. He has authored/co-authored over 140 refereed research articles and eight books and held visiting appointments at many Universities in Europe and Asia.

His teaching areas include: Derivative Securities; Advanced Instruments Finance Theory; Portfolio Analysis and he is currently researching: Derivative Securities Pricing; Term Structure of Interest Rates; Quantitative Finance Techniques; Disequilibrium Macroeconomics; Asset Pricing Theory; and Estimation of Continuous Time Models... More>>

Jock is Professor of Economics, and he has been teaching at UTS since 1977. His research interests centre on an interdisciplinary study of immigration and cultural diversity in the economy and society. He is the author or co-author of nine books, the most recent of which is Bin Laden in the Suburbs: criminalizing the Arab other (with Scott Poynting, Greg Noble and Paul Tabar). He is also the author of over 50 articles in international and national academic journals and book chapters. His work has been translated in French, Japanese, Arabic, Dutch, Chinese and Italian. Jock has had visiting academic appointments in the UK, Canada, Sweden and the United States. His recent research has been on Australian immigration, ethnic crime, immigrant entrepreneurship, ethnic precincts and tourism and the social use of ethnic heritage and the built environment... More>>

Tony holds a PhD in Econometrics and is currently the Head of the School of Finance & Economics. He has taught Econometrics at both the Australian National University and the University of California in San Diego, USA. He has published articles in many international journals.

His teaching areas include: Corporate Finance; Futures and Options; Microeconomics; Applied Finance; Economic Theory, Applied Econometrics; Time Series Analysis; Decision Theory and Linear; and Dynamic Programming. He also conducts research in: Applied Financial Econometrics; Interest Rate Modelling; Time Series Methods in Econometrics; and Statistical Inference in Econometrics... More>>

Tony He has a PhD in Applied Mathematics and another PhD in Finance. He has authored over 60 research articles in mathematics, economics, and finance.

His teaching areas include: Derivatives; Financial Economics; Nonlinear Economics; and Investment. He is currently doing research in Financial Market Modelling; Heterogeneous Expectations and Learning; Nonlinear Economic Dynamics and Bounded Rationality; Behaviour Finance; and Asset Pricing... More>>

David received a PhD for his work on Intraday Price Formation and Bid-Ask Spread Components on the New York Stock Exchange and the Paris Bourse. He is a founding co-editor of the International Journal of Managerial Finance and has taught at a number of institutions in North America, South Africa and Australia.

David’s teaching areas include: Business Finance; Investments / Security Valuation; and Corporate Finance. He is currently doing research in: Market Microstructure; Corporate Finance, Stock Market Liquidity Measurement, Bid-ask Spread Decomposition, Trading Rules, Microstructure Aspects of Accounting and Real Estate... More>>

Alex Novikov received a PhD in Mathematics in 1972 and his Doctor of Science degree in 1982. He has edited and published several proceedings and over 90 research papers. He has also been invited to more than 80 visiting appointments at leading mathematical institutions. He has also served on the Editorial Boards of five different Journals.

His research areas include Statistics of Random Processes, Sequential Analysis, Random Fields and Mathematical Finance... More>>

Eckhard is a Professor of Quantitative Finance at both the School of Finance and Economics and the Department of Mathematical Sciences. He holds a PhD degree in Mathematics and has obtained a Dr.sc degree from the Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Germany.

Eckhard has authored/co-authored over 130 refereed research papers and three monographs, and he has held visiting positions at more than 50 leading institutions around the world. He is on the editorial board of over six respected journals, and is the initiator and co-organiser of the Quantitative Methods in Finance conference series.

His teaching areas include:Stochastic Analysis; Mathematics of Finance; Numerical Methods in Finance; and Futures and Options.  He is currently researching: Numerical Methods in Finance; Financial Market Modelling; Asset Pricing Theory; Estimation of Discretely Observed Financial Markets; and Stochastic Differential Equations... More>>

Erik holds a PhD in Economics and has broad experience consulting in Computational Financial Engineering for financial institutions and software developers throughout the world. He has taught at several Universities in Europe, Asia and Australia.

Erik is currently conducting research in Credit Risk Modelling, and Integrating FX and Interest Rate Risk... More>>

Patrick received a PhD degree for research into the property market, and he has since produced a large number of research papers in this area. His articles have been published in international journals and presented at conferences around the world. He has won several coveted Research Awards and is on the Editorial Board of a number of respected real estate and property journals.

Patrick teaches Quantitative Techniques in Finance and Economics, Forecasting, Statistics, Economics and Financial Modelling. He also conducts research into the Property Market and Urban Economics... More>>