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Rotman Professor Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Risk magazine

February 9, 2011

TORONTO, ON – A pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment has received a life­time achieve­ment award from Risk, one of the world’s lead­ing finan­cial risk man­age­ment mag­a­zines.

The award for John Hull, the Maple Finan­cial Group Pro­fes­sor of Deriv­a­tives and Risk Man­age­ment at the Rot­man School, was announced in the magazine’s Jan­u­ary issue.

Prof. Hull is wide­ly known among both prac­ti­tion­ers and aca­d­e­mics for research and text­books on risk and deriv­a­tives. Recent­ly his research has been con­cerned with cred­it risk, exec­u­tive stock options, volatil­i­ty sur­faces, mar­ket risk, and inter­est rate 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 has writ­ten three books, Risk Man­age­ment and Finan­cial Insti­tu­tions (sec­ond edi­tion), Options, Futures, and Oth­er Deriv­a­tives (eighth edi­tion recent­ly pub­lished), and Fun­da­men­tals of Futures and Options Mar­kets (now in its sev­enth edi­tion). The books have been trans­lat­ed into many lan­guages and are wide­ly used in trad­ing rooms through­out the world. 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 Pro­fes­sion­al Risk Man­agers’ Inter­na­tion­al Asso­ci­a­tion High­er Stan­dard Award. He is an Asso­ciate Edi­tor of eight aca­d­e­m­ic jour­nals.

Prof. Hull teach­es in the Rot­man School’s MBA pro­grams and is the co-direc­tor of the Rot­man Mas­ter in Finance pro­gram, a 20-month pro­gram for work­ing pro­fes­sion­als in the Finance indus­try.

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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For more infor­ma­tion, please con­tact:

Ken McGuf­fin
Man­ag­er, Media Rela­tions
Rot­man School of Man­age­ment
Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to
Phone: 416–946-3818
mcguffin@rotman.utoronto.ca
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