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Prof. Rajna Gibson

Rajna Gibson is Professor of Finance at the University of Zurich, Switzerland since March, 2000 and Honorary Professor of Finance at the University of Lausanne. She was a Professor of Finance at Lausanne University from 1991 to February 2000 and directed its Master’ in science program in Banking and Finance. She was assistant-professor of Finance at Groupe HEC, Paris and a visiting scholar at New York University and at John Anderson’s graduate school of management at UCLA.

She holds a Ph.D in Finance and a graduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Geneva. Her papers "Stochastic convenience yield and the pricing of oil contingent claims" (co-authored with Eduardo Schwartz, UCLA) in the Journal of Finance, 1990 and "Valuing Swiss default-free callable bonds: theory and empirical evidence", Journal of Banking and Finance, 1990 were awarded the Greenwich Capital Markets 1990 Investments prize and the Iddo Sarnat 1990 prize, respectively.

She is also a member of the Swiss Federal Banking Commission, a member of the Board of directors at Swiss Re and of the Scientific councils of the TCIP and FAME, two teaching and research organizations located in Switzerland.

See also: 04.30 pm 'Are derivatives potential tools of mass destruction?' – the discussion