| William Perraudin | |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Dale W. Jorgenson |
William R. M. Perraudin is a British economist. He is an adjunct professor and former Chair of Finance at Imperial College London,[1] specialising in the fields of risk and pricing of debt instruments. He is a director of the risk management software and consultancy firm Risk Control Limited.
As an expert in the field of risk as applied to financial regulation, Perraudin has been a special advisor to the Bank of England.[2] He has long taken the position that the financial models in use by major institutions are insufficiently conservative.[3]
From 1977 to 1981, William Perraudin studied French and History at the University of Oxford. From 1981 to 1983, he studied for a MSc in economics at London School of Economics, before gaining a PhD in economics from Harvard University.[4] He earned an M.S. in applied mathematics, 1987 to 1988, also from Harvard.
Before moving to Imperial,[5] Professor Perraudin headed the finance group of Birkbeck College, University of London.[6] He also taught at Cambridge University
He is an associate editor of Quantitative Finance, the Journal of Banking and Finance and the Journal of Credit Risk.