Professor John Cotter is Director of the Centre for Financial Markets (http://www.ucd.ie/bankingfinance/research-center-financial-market.htm) at the School of Business, University College Dublin. John has previously had visiting positions at UCLA, London School of Economics and ESSEC Business School. He was previously Director of the Executive MBA at the Michael Smurfit School of Business.  He was awarded a UCD Faculty of Commerce Outstanding Educator Teaching Award in 2003. His research, teaching and consultancy interests are in the areas of Volatility Modelling and Measuring, Risk Management and Investment Analysis with applications in equity, currency, derivative, fixed income and real estate markets.