Mehraj Mattoo is a British investment banker, economist and author; and an ALI Fellow and senior fellow at

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 ...

. He is the former global head of asset management at

Commerzbank The Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft (shortly known as Commerzbank AG or Commerzbank ) is a European Financial institution, banking institution headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany. It offers services to private and entrepreneurial c ...

AG. Prior to Commerzbank, Mattoo was the managing director of

Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein SG Kleinwort Hambros is a private bank owned by Société Générale that offers financial services from offices throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Gibraltar. History In June 2016, Société Générale acquired Kleinwort Benson ...

, the investment banking arm of

Dresdner Bank Dresdner Bank AG () was a German bank, founded in 1872 in Dresden, then headquartered in Berlin from 1884 to 1945 and in Frankfurt from 1963 onwards after a postwar hiatus. Long Germany's second-largest bank behind Deutsche Bank, it was eventually ...

AG, the second largest bank in Germany. In the mid-1990s, Mattoo was co-head of the fund derivatives group in the City at

BNP Paribas BNP Paribas (; sometimes referred to as BNPP or BNP) is a French multinational universal bank and financial services holding company headquartered in Paris. It was founded in 2000 from the merger of two of France's foremost financial instituti ...

. He has been credited for pioneering the use of structured products on alternative investments, especially hedge funds, that helped attract institutional assets to the hedge fund industry and contributed to its growth over the following decade. At Commerzbank he instituted a move toward neural network (machine learning) based asset allocation, launching the first Computational Intelligence group in the City under the leadership of late Prof. John G. Taylor. Mattoo was born in India but was educated at

Imperial College Imperial College London, also known as Imperial, is a public research university in London, England. Its history began with Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who envisioned a cultural district in South Kensington that included museums ...

in London, where he was awarded an MSc and a PhD from the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a collegiate university, federal Public university, public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The ...

. He was the inaugural NatWest Research Fellow at Imperial College (1986–1989) and a visiting research scholar at the

MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management (branded as MIT Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree progra ...

. Mattoo is a leading commentator on alternative investments and a known critic of the traditional asset management model. Dr. Mattoo is the author of ''Structured Derivatives'' published in 1997 by the

Financial Times The ''Financial Times'' (''FT'') is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic Current affairs (news format), current affairs. Based in London, the paper is owned by a Jap ...

and a co-author of books on interest rate risk management and alternative investments. In 2015, he was appointed advanced leadership fellow at

, and in 2016 he became a senior fellow.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mattoo, Mehraj Living people British bankers Harvard University faculty Alumni of Imperial College London MIT Sloan School of Management faculty Year of birth missing (living people)

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