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We pleased to announce a diverse and well-qualified group teaching at the training seminar, all of whom have been involved with the Programme for many years, thus, knowing the course content in great detail.
Programme Director – Mr. John D. Evans, CFA
John is a full-time member of the academic staff of the ICMA Centre,
University of Reading and is also Program Director for the Centre’s MSc Investment Management. Prior to academia, John spent twenty years in the fixed income market in Toronto, New York and London in areas of research, origination and sales and trading.
OnLine Campus Tutor – Gail Rolland
Gail has ten years of fixed income experience in London and New York in the areas of sales and trading and new product structuring. Since the mid-1990s she has worked with ICMA Executive Education in addition to running her own financial markets training firm and has particular expertise in advising to the insurance industry on capital market investment strategies.
Dr. Andrew Bevan
Andy graduated with a first class BA in economics from Reading University in 1978 and was awarded a PhD in international monetary economics from City University in 1986. Andy started his career in 1978 with J&A Scrimgeour, a London-based specialist gilt broker. He then held posts with Chase Manhattan bank and Midland bank in London, working as an economist. In 1994, Andy was appointed Director of International Bond Research at Goldman Sachs in London. He was appointed Managing Director in 2000, and became Head of Global Markets Research, producing research and trading strategy for foreign exchange, money markets, government bonds and corporate bonds. He retired from this post in 2005 joining Fulcrum Asset Management as Research Director in May, 2006. Andy is also a part-time lecturer at the ICMA Centre teaching courses in fixed income.
Mr. David Oakes
David trained as an economist at the London School of Economics and was lecturer in finance at the University of Exeter and Warwick Business School before joining the ICMA Centre at the University of Reading as Director of Academic and Executive Education in 1998. He co-ordinated ICMA Executive Education programmes from 1994-2004. David left the Centre in 2004 to set up Dauphin Financial Training Limited, which specialises in advanced financial markets training to investment banks in New York.
Mr. Neil Schofield
Neil Schofield is a Visiting Fellow at the ICMA Centre and specialises in interest rate markets though also teaches all of the major asset classes and their respective derivative products from foreign exchange through to commodities. He lectures on both the MSc degrees at the Centre and also with ICMA Executive Education.
Neil holds a BSc in Economics from Loughborough University and an MBA from Manchester Business School. He was elected as a Fellow of the IFS School of Finance (formerly the Chartered Institute of Bankers) in 1999.
Neil is author of the book ‘Commodity Derivatives’ published by Wiley in November 2007. He is currently writing a second book “Relative Value in Financial Markets” to be published in 2010.
Dr. Philip Xu
Philip is a visiting lecturer teaching interest rate modelling, fixed income securities and investment management at the ICMA Centre. His research focuses on pricing and risk management of fixed income investment strategies as well as credit derivatives. He currently also works with Credit Suisse in Zürich with responsibility for oversight of the bank’s hedge fund investments. Prior to joining the ICMA Centre, he worked as a structured finance analyst at LTCB and also as a credit analyst for Citigroup.
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