Rotman Professor Honoured as Canadian Risk Manager of the Year
Toronto, November 8, 2013 – A professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management has been named as the Canadian Risk Manager of the Year by PRMIA, the Professional Risk Managers' International Association. John Hull holds the Maple Financial Group Chair in Derivatives and Risk Management and is a professor of finance at the Rotman School.
The award was presented this week in Toronto at the Canadian Risk Forum organized by the Toronto chapter of PRMIA. Prof. Hull is widely known among both practitioners and academics for research and textbooks on risk and derivatives. His research is currently focused on credit risk and credit derivatives. He was, with Rotman Prof. Alan White, one of the winners of the Nikko-LOR research competition for his work on the Hull-White interest rate model. He has acted as consultant to many North American, Japanese, and European financial institutions. He is best known for his books Risk Management and Financial Institutions (now in its 3rd edition), Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (now in its 8th edition), and Fundamentals of Futures and Options Markets (now in its 8th edition). His books have been translated into many languages and are widely used in trading rooms throughout the world, as well as in the classroom. He has won many teaching awards, including University of Toronto's prestigious Northrop Frye award, and was voted Financial Engineer of the Year in 1999 by the International Association of Financial Engineers. In 2010, he was awarded the PRIMIA Higher Standard Award and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Risk magazine. He is an Associate Editor of eight academic journals. Prof. Hull is the co-director of the Rotman Master of Finance (MFin) Program, a 20-month program for working professionals in the Finance industry. He teaches in both the MBA and MFin programs. Established in 2002 by a volunteer group of risk industry professionals, PRMIA's mission is to provide a free and open forum for the promotion of sound risk management standards and practices globally. With nearly 90,000 members worldwide, PRMIA is represented globally by over 65 chapters in major cities around the world. The Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto is redesigning business education for the 21st century with a curriculum based on Integrative Thinking. Located in the world’s most diverse city, the Rotman School fosters a new way to think that enables the design of creative business solutions. The School is currently raising $200 million to ensure Canada has the world-class business school it deserves. For more information, visit www.rotman.utoronto.ca.
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