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Biography

Con Keating is a financial analyst who, prior to joining the Finance Development Centre, had extensive experience in commercial and merchant banking, insurance, and investment management. He is a former Chairman of the Committee on Methods and Measures of the European Federation of Financial Analyst Societies and has taught as a visiting scholar at Universities in the USA and Europe. He is a member of the Societe Universitaire Europeene pour Recherche en Finance and a member of the Steering Committee of the Financial Research Centre at City University. William F Shadwick is a mathematician whose distinguished career in research included positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, The NASA Ames Research Center and the Los Alamos National Laboratories, as well as the Universities of Toronto and Waterloo. He was the founding Executive Director of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences in Toronto before moving to the field of finance with Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and subsequently with Risk Partnership and the Finance Development Centre, He has made significant contributions in the modelling of derivatives prices and risk sensitivities. He has been an invited speaker in leading industry and academic finance forums and has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics since 1998.