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Radu S. Tunaru is Professor of Finance and Risk Management at the University of Reading, where he is the current Head of the ICMA Centre in the Henley Business School. Radu is on the Associate Editor Board of the Journal of Derivatives and the Journal of Portfolio Management, and he worked for Bank of Montreal and Merrill Lynch in London in their Structured Finance divisions. He published in many journals in Finance and Risk Management including Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, European Journal of Operational Research, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics and Review of Economics and Statistics, among others. He co-authored several papers with Robert Shiller, the Nobel laureate for Economics in 2013 and he conducted consulting for various banks, hedge-funds, start-ups and executive training houses including Lloyds and London Financial Studies. His expertise covers Derivatives Markets, Model Risk in Finance and Insurance, Credit Risk, Real-Estate Finance, Real-Options and Empirical International Finance.

Enoch B. Quaye is a lecturer in finance with the Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Bristol Business School. His Ph.D. degree specialty is in Financial Risk Management and Asset Pricing. Before then, he was lecturer in finance at the University of Kent Business School, University of Kent, and also lecturer in Statistics and Actuarial Science with the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Ghana. He has over 10 years of industry experience as an actuary and risk management professional and has consulted extensively for corporate organizations through advice provisioning and training workshops. Enoch's research spans financial risk management, derivatives, asset pricing, and pensions.