Finance Program

    Financial Institutions Seminars 2008-09

     Spring 2009 Seminars

08/5/09      14:00          Tobias Sperr

Tobias Sperr is currently working as a Quantitative Analyst at Vattenfall Trading Services in Hamburg, Germany. Prior to that he worked in the Risk Methodology department of RWE Trading and in Risk Controlling for a mortgage bank.  He holds an MSc in Finance from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and an MSc in Environmental Sciences from the University of Oldenburg.

     Winter 2009 Seminars

27/2/09     13:00         Juan Carlos García Céspedes

Juan Carlos García Cespedes is Head of Risk Methodologies at BBVA. He is an expert in virtually all areas of risk including credit risk, market risk, operational risk, and insurance risk. He has an MBA from the Universidad de Deusto and has done graduate work at CEMFI as well as the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

30/01/09   15:00         Drago Indjic

Drago Indjic is a Project Manager at the BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre at London Business School. His current research interests include hedge fund data mining and microstructural investment strategies. He has a PhD in Energy Engineering from Imperial College, London.

16/01/09   15:00         David Mendez Vives

David Mendez has carried out most of his professional career in London, where he has worked for Lehmen Brothers, Deutsche Bank, and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, where he was the Director of the Rates/Trading Sales Group. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics. The title of his seminar is "Future of Finance: A Personal View", which is intended to be an overview for those entering the job market in the near future.

     Fall 2008 Seminars

07/11/08     17:30          Antoni Surera Gomila

Antoni Surera works in Risk and Asset Management for the Banc Sabadell Group, where he builds and tracks risk models for the IRB advanced system. Prior to that he worked as a consultant in the creation of a hedge fund in the US. He has also worked for the European Investment Bank and taught at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and a Master's in Economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is currently a PhD. student at the UPF.

21/11/08   10:00          Lorenzo Isla Couso

Lorenzo Isla is responsible for the Structured Credit and Credit Derivatives businesses at BBVA. Prior to this he ran the CDO/structured credit research and strategy efforts at Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers Int. in London from 2001 to 2007. He was a lecturer at Harvard University from 1996 to 2001 and worked for PanAgora AM, the Boston based hedge fund. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and completed his graduate studies in Financial Economics at Harvard University.

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