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Janet Tavakoli has over 30 years of experience in complex finance. She has traded, structured and sold derivatives and structured products at major financial institutions in New York and London and headed marketing of complex derivatives to Japan. She is a former adjunct associate professor of finance at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business (Chicago Booth) where she taught “Derivatives: Futures, Forwards, Options and Swaps.”
Janet Tavakoli is the former Executive Director, Head of Financial Engineering in the Global Financial Markets Division at Westdeutsche Landesbank in London. She headed market risk management for the capital markets group for Bank One in Chicago. Tavakoli headed the asset swap trading desk at Merrill Lynch in New York, headed mortgage backed securities marketing for Merrill Lynch in New York, and headed mortgage backed securities marketing to Japanese clients for PaineWebber in New York. She also worked for Goldman Sachs in mortgage marketing and for Bear Stearns heading marketing for quantitative research.
During her career, she has been registered and licensed with the SFA, NASD, ASE, CBOE, NYSE, PSE and the NFA and has passed the Series 7, 63, 65, and 3 qualifying exams. As a risk consultant, she is not registered or licensed with these agencies, since she is not affiliated with an investment advisory or a brokerage firm.
Ms. Tavakoli is a frequent lecturer and speaker and has published numerous books and articles on structured finance. She has served as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business (Chicago Booth). She attended the Illinois Institute of Technology for a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business where she earned an MBA in Finance.
Tavakoli leverages her knowledge of international finance in non-fiction and fiction thrillers. Learn more at her financial thriller site.

Janet Tavakoli has over 30 years of experience in complex finance. She has traded, structured and sold derivatives and structured products at major financial institutions in New York and London and headed marketing of complex derivatives to Japan. She is a former adjunct associate professor of finance at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business (Chicago Booth) where she taught “Derivatives: Futures, Forwards, Options and Swaps.”
Janet Tavakoli is the former Executive Director, Head of Financial Engineering in the Global Financial Markets Division at Westdeutsche Landesbank in London. She headed market risk management for the capital markets group for Bank One in Chicago. Tavakoli headed the asset swap trading desk at Merrill Lynch in New York, headed mortgage backed securities marketing for Merrill Lynch in New York, and headed mortgage backed securities marketing to Japanese clients for PaineWebber in New York. She also worked for Goldman Sachs in mortgage marketing and for Bear Stearns heading marketing for quantitative research.
During her career, she has been registered and licensed with the SFA, NASD, ASE, CBOE, NYSE, PSE and the NFA and has passed the Series 7, 63, 65, and 3 qualifying exams. As a risk consultant, she is not registered or licensed with these agencies, since she is not affiliated with an investment advisory or a brokerage firm.
Ms. Tavakoli is a frequent lecturer and speaker and has published numerous books and articles on structured finance. She has served as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business (Chicago Booth). She attended the Illinois Institute of Technology for a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business where she earned an MBA in Finance.
Tavakoli leverages her knowledge of international finance in non-fiction and fiction thrillers. Learn more at her financial thriller site.