About the author

HANS-PETER DEUTSCH is Founder and Managing Director of d-fine, one of the leading financial services consulting firms in Europe. He was formerly a Partner at Arthur Andersen and Head of Financial Risk Consulting in Germany. Dr Deutsch holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics and is author of many publications in the area of quantitative finance. He is also Guest Lecturer for Mathematical Finance at Oxford University, UK, and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the MathFinance Institute at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.