Paul Wilmott

Paul Wilmott
Paul Wilmott in 2012
Born (1959-11-08) 8 November 1959 (age 64)
NationalityBritish
Alma materSt Catherine's College, Oxford
(DPhil, 1985)
Occupations
Known forWilmott
wilmott.com

Paul Wilmott (born 8 November 1959)[1] is an English researcher, consultant and lecturer in quantitative finance.[2] He is best known as the author of various academic and practitioner texts on risk and derivatives,[2] for Wilmott magazine and Wilmott.com, a quantitative finance portal, and for his prescient warnings about the misuse of mathematics in finance.[3]

  1. ^ Guardian profile and interview
  2. ^ a b Financial gurus Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Number cruncher who foresaw financial crash by Elena Moya The Guardian 1 May 2009