Introduction to Derivative Markets: 2026 Release

Daniel Brown, D Phil, is a teaching professor at the Leeds School of Business, at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He teaches classes on derivative securities, applied derivative securities, optimization in finance, and financial analysis. He is responsible for the Quantitative Finance certificate program. He has led education-abroad trips to London. He was the winner of the Frascona Teaching Excellence Award in 2017 and recipient of a Dean's Faculty Teaching Award in 2024. Prior to joining Leeds, Daniel spent 18 years working in the derivatives industry. First, he worked at Credit Suisse for 14 years. His roles ranged from risk management to quantitative development and trading. He spent two years at CQS, a hedge fund focused on convertible bond and credit strategies, and then two years at Morgan Stanley. In 2011, he walked into his boss's office in London, quit his job, and moved to Colorado to start his teaching career. As he tells his students when they are writing their resume, "put something that is uniquely you at the bottom." In 2023, he ran a 5:39 age-group All-American mile at the age of 55.