Dr. Boudoukh, Jacob

Jacob is currently the Academic Director of the
Caesarea Center for Capital Markets and Risk
Management and a Professor of Finance at the
Arison School of Business, IDC, Israel. He is a
research associate of the asset-pricing group at
the National Bureau of Economic Research
(NBER) in Boston. His research focuses on
theoretical, empirical and practical aspects of
asset pricing, derivatives and risk management.
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Until recently Jacob was a tenured Associate Professor of Finance and
International Business at the Stern School of Business, NYU.  He has
served as a consultant to multiple global financial institutions such as
Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, UBS, Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley.
He specializes in developing model-driven quantitative strategies for FEX
trading, fixed income and global equities, as well as in Risk Management.  

Jacob has won a number of awards through the years, most recently the
2006 GSAM award for best paper in investments. He is the author of some
30 papers, evenly split between top tier academic journals such as the
American Economic Review, The Journal of Finance, and practitioner
oriented journals such as the Journal of Derivatives and Risk. He is also
the coauthor of ‘Understanding Market, Credit and Operational Risk’
(Blackwell ’04) and has contributed chapters to many books.

Jacob is Editor of Risk Management Abstract (FEN) and Associate Editor of
the Journal of Risk. He is a referee for numerous Journals.

Jacob holds a BS with Special Honors in Information Systems Engineering
from the Israel Institute of Technology and a PhD in finance from Stanford
University GSB.