 | The Swiss Finance Institute draws on the resources of its own members – practitioners and academics - and also relies on international specialists to ensure the highest standards of expertise. Faculty members have been chosen for their demonstrated ability to conduct executive education, as well as for their recognized expertise in their respective fields. The program is placed under the scientific supervision of Professor François-Serge Lhabitant.
François-Serge Lhabitant
François-Serge Lhabitant is currently the CIO of Kedge Capital Fund Management. He was formerly a Member of Senior Management at Union Bancaire Privée and a Director at UBS/Global Asset Management in charge of building quantitative models for portfolio management and hedge funds. On the academic side, François-Serge is currently a Professor of Finance at the EDHEC Business School (France) and a Visiting Professor of Finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. François-Serge's expertise is in the areas of quantitative portfolio management and alternative investments (hedge funds). He is the author of several books and articles on these subjects.
José Antonio Blanco
José Antonio Blanco is the Regional Chief Investment Officer, EMEA, at UBS Global Asset Management, and is a member of various Management Committees. He is also a member of the UBS Wealth Management and Swiss Bank Mandate Committee and heads the institutional Swiss Investment Committee. In his role José Antonio Blanco supervises the investment and research activities for continental Europe, and is part of the Global Investment Solutions business area, where he heads the Portfolio Engineering team. Prior to his present position José Antonio Blanco was the head of EMEA portfolio engineering and investment research. José Antonio Blanco has a PhD from the University of Zurich.
Gregory Ciresi
Gregory Ciresi has a degree in physics, and a Masters in mathematical finance from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. He has worked as a programmer and quantitative analyst for several large equity and fixed-income hedge funds. Currently, he is Senior Financial Engineer of Structured Portfolios in the Debt Capital Markets Group at Cantor Fitzgerald. Outside academia, he has delivered seminars on Financial Modeling in New York and London. At NYU, he teaches courses on CDOs and exotic option pricing. At Baruch College CUNY, his courses include fixed-income risk management and statistical arbitrage.
Richard Comotto
Richard Comotto is a Teaching Fellow at the ICMA Centre at the University of Reading in England, responsible for the post-graduate module on short-term financial markets (FX, money markets and securities financing). He is course director for the Professional Repo Market Course delivered jointly by ICMA, ACI and SIFMA in Europe and Asia, and for the new ICMA GMRA Workshop. He is director of the ICMA semi-annual survey of the European repo market and an independent consultant providing research, support and training on the institutional money, securities and derivatives markets to a wide range of clients, including professional market associations, government agencies, regulatory authorities, banks, brokers and information services, both in the City of London and outside the UK. Has recently advised the World Bank on the reform of repo markets in Egypt and Nigeria. Special interests include securities financing, collateral management and electronic trading in OTC markets. He served for 10 years in the Bank of England (1979-89), including the Bank’s International and Foreign Exchange Divisions and on secondment to the UK Delegation to the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC (1987-89).
Robert Kosowski
Robert Kosowski is director of the Risk Management Lab as well as the Centre for Hedge Fund ResearchandAssistant Professor in the Accounting and Finance Group of Imperial College Business School, Imperial College in London. Robert Kosowski's research interests include asset pricing and financial econometrics with a focus on the performanceand risk ofmutual funds, hedge funds,analyst recommendations and derivative trading strategies. Robert'sresearch has been published in top peer-reviewed finance journals such as The Journal of Finance and The Journal of Financial Economics andhas been featured in publications such as The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. Robert's research was awarded the European Finance Association 2007 Common FundBest Paper Award, am INQUIRE UK best paper award and INQUIRE UK research grants. Prior to joining Imperial College London Robert was an Assistant Professor of Finance at INSEAD where he taught in the MBA, Executive Education and PhD programs. Robert was a visiting scholar at the UCSD Economics Department (2000) and the International Monetary Fund (2008). At Imperial Robert teaches in the MSc Risk Management and Financial Engineering and the MSc Finance. Robert holds a BA and MA in Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge University, and a MSc in Economics and PhD from the London School of Economics. Robert has consulted for private and public sector organizations including the IIF and the IMF and was special adviser to the UK House of Lords from October until December 2009. He has worked for Goldman Sachs in London, the Boston Consulting Group in Germany and Deutsche Bank in New York City.
Alfred Mettler
Alfred Mettler is Professor of Finance at Georgia State University, Atlanta, and the former Managing Director of its Center for Enterprise Risk Management and Assurance Services (CERMAS). He received his MBA and PhD in Finance from the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and has been on the faculty of the Swiss Banking Institute (University of Zurich/Switzerland), New York University (Stern School of Business), and Thunderbird (The Garvin School of International Management). He has won several teaching awards, including the faculty recognition award for teaching and the students’ Crystal Apple award for excellence in teaching at GSU. His principal academic interests are in International Banking and Finance, Risk Management of Financial Institutions, and Financial Education. Professor Mettler’s research focuses on equity/debt financing of corporations, enterprise risk management applications, and the management of credit risk exposures. He has leading roles in several Executive Education Programs in Europe and the US and has consulted for various companies and organizations, including the Swiss Government, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Swiss Bank Corp., Nestlé, Lucent, and others.
Erwan Morellec
Erwan Morellec is Professor of Finance at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) and holds a Senior Chair at the Swiss Finance Institute. Formerly on the faculty of the Simon School of Business of the University of Rochester (USA) and the HEC, University of Lausanne (Switzerland), he holds a PhD in Finance from HEC Paris. He is Project Director for the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Head of the Swiss Finance Institute PhD Program, and a CEPR Research Affiliate. He has research interests in corporate finance and asset pricing, and his papers have been published in a variety of academic journals including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Business, and the Journal of Economic Theory.
Olivier Scaillet
Olivier Scaillet, is Professor of Probability and Statistics at the HEC, University of Geneva (Switzerland) and holds a Senior Chair at the Swiss Finance Institute. He holds both a Masters and a PhD from University Paris IX Dauphine in applied mathematics. Professor Olivier Scaillet's research expertise is in the area of derivatives pricing, econometrictheory and econometrics applied to finance and insurance. He has published several papers in leading journals in econometrics and finance, has co-authored a book on financial econometrics, and has won an award for the best paper published in the Journal of Empirical Finance. Prof. Olivier Scaillet is also associate editor of the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics of the American Statistical Association, and he is a long standing adviser for the research team of BNP Paribas in Paris and London.
Franco Taisch
Franco Taisch is Full Professor (Ordinarius) for Business Law and Managing Director of the Institute of Business Law at the University of Lucerne since 2009; Adjunct Faculty Member of the Executive School of Management, Technology and Law at the University of St. Gallen since 2008; Adjunct Faculty Member of the Swiss Finance Institute since 2007; Managing Director with taischconsulting, management and law, since 2007; Member of the Board of Directors of various domestic and foreign companies since 1995, today inter alia, Member of the Audit Committee of the Raiffeisen Group and Chairman of Swiss Rock Asset Management; last appointed Titularprofessor for Legal Management and Financial Markets Law at the University of Lucerne (2005-2009); Lecturer at the Universities of Zurich, St. Gallen and Lucerne 1993-2005; last appointed Member of the Executive Board and General Counsel of the Julius Baer Group (1998-2007); Member of the Executive Board and Executive of various companies 1994-2007; Attorney at Law in Zurich, Geneva and New York 1989-1994; International Institute for Management Development IMD 2000; Practising Law Institute New York 1992.; Zurich Bar 1989; LL.D. University of Zurich 1987.
Vincenzo Zinnà
Vincenzo Zinnà is Director at Credit Suisse since Sept. 2009. As Product Manager Derivatives he is responsable to activate the trading in derivatives issued by Credit Suisse. Before he was Director and Member of the Senior Management at Swissquote, a Swiss bank, where he headed the Sales & Client Relations Group responsible for institutional clients. Vincenzo Zinnà has many years of experience as an active derivatives trader, as a sales manager for derivative products, and as a trainer of derivative products. Vincenzo Zinnà worked at the Swiss Options and Financial Futures Exchange SOFFEX where he was responsible for the selling of SOFFEX products as well as for the training of UBS employees in SOFFEX products, before becoming a market maker at SOFFEX. Subsequently he moved to Credit Suisse, where he first sold derivative trading strategies to institutional clients, and then, at Credit Suisse Financial Products, became responsible for the structuring, marketing and selling of the REVEXUS and TORO products. In 1999, he co-founded Finance@Work, a company providing financial training.
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