Jamil Baz is a

financial economist Financial economics is the branch of economics characterized by a "concentration on monetary activities", in which "money of one type or another is likely to appear on ''both sides'' of a trade". William F. Sharpe"Financial Economics", in Its c ...

, academic, and managing director at

PIMCO Pacific Investment Management Company LLC (PIMCO) is an American investment management firm. While it has a specific focus on active fixed income management worldwide, it manages investments in many asset classes, including fixed income, share ca ...

Early life

Baz was born in 1959 into a Christian Lebanese family. He was schooled at the

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, ''Notre Dame de Jamhour'', in Lebanon. He pursued his studies in France, the UK and the US. He earned a Diploma from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, an M.Sc. from the

London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), established in 1895, is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. The school specialises in the social sciences. Founded ...

, a master's degree from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

Sloan School of Management, and an MA and a Ph.D. from

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

Career

Baz is a managing director at

. Prior to this, he was a senior managing director and chief investment strategist of the

Man Group Man Group plc is an active investment management business listed on the London Stock Exchange. It provides investment funds in liquid and private markets for institutional and private investors. It is the world's largest publicly traded hedge f ...

, a managing director in the Proprietary Trading Group of

Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ( ) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered in Lower Manhattan in New York City, with regional headquarters in many internationa ...

, chief investment strategist of

Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG (, ) is a Germany, German multinational Investment banking, investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. ...

, and managing director of

Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers Inc. ( ) was an American global financial services firm founded in 1850. Before filing for bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States (behind Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Merril ...

. He started his career at the

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and Grant (money), grants to the governments of Least developed countries, low- and Developing country, middle-income countries for the purposes of economic development ...

where he traded the derivatives portfolio and advised Central Banks on the management of foreign exchange reserves and external debt. He teaches

financial economics Financial economics is the branch of economics characterized by a "concentration on monetary activities", in which "money of one type or another is likely to appear on ''both sides'' of a trade".William F. Sharpe"Financial Economics", in Its co ...

Oxford University The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest continuously operating u ...

, and is on the teaching staff of the

Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford The Mathematical Institute is the mathematics department at the University of Oxford in England. It is one of the nine departments of the university's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division. The institute includes both pure and app ...

; he has also taught at

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...

and

Personal life

He is married to Zeina Farhat and has three children: Maurice, Elena and Alexandra.

References

*https://www.amazon.com/Financial-Derivatives-Pricing-Applications-Mathematics/dp/0521066794 *https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/members/students/postgraduate-courses/msc-mathematical-finance-part-time/information-applicants-pa-0 *https://www.reuters.com/article/allianz-moves-idUSL3N1634LV *https://www.pimco.com/experts/jamil-baz *https://www.ft.com/content/418ceb14-c45d-11e1-9c1e-00144feabdc0 *https://www.ft.com/content/580fa460-8e8d-11df-964e-00144feab49a *https://www.ft.com/content/71b38230-da3e-11e5-a72f-1e7744c66818 *https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-30/pimco-s-baz-says-japan-in-a-bind-as-total-debt-tops-600-of-gdp *

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