Dr. John Hull
Academic Affiliate, Equity Methods

Maple Financial Group Professor of Derivatives and Risk Management at the University of Toronto

In addition to his flagship position at the University of Toronto (alongside Dr. Alan White), Dr. John Hull is also the Director of the Bonham Center for Finance. He is an internationally recognized authority on derivatives and has many publications in the field. Recently, his research has been concerned with credit risk, executive stock options, volatility surfaces, market risk, and interest rate derivatives. He was, with 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 a consultant to many North American, Japanese, and European financial institutions. He has written two books "Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives" (now in its sixth edition) and "Fundamentals of Futures and Options Markets" (now in its fifth edition). Both books have been translated into several languages and are widely used in trading rooms throughout the world.

Dr. Hull 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 addition to the University of Toronto, Dr. Hull has taught at York University, University of British Columbia, New York University, Cranfield, and London Business School. He is an Associate Editor of eight academic journals.