Title: Steam Engines Jet Fighters and Credit Crises
Speaker: Dr George Cooper
Affiliation: BlueCrest Capital
Location: Room 217-218 Huxley Building
Time: 2:00pm

Abstract. The talk will discuss some of the underlying causes of the financial crisis with particular focus on financial market instability, monetary policy and the influence of the Efficient Market Hypothesis.

About the speaker. George Cooper is a fund manager at BlueCrest Capital in London. Prior to joining BlueCrest George was the head of European interest rate research at JP Morgan and has also worked for both Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs. George’s book “The Origin of Financial Crises: Central Banks, Credit Bubbles and the Efficient Market Fallacy” was published in August 2008 and has now been translated into over a dozen languages. George holds a PhD in engineering from Durham University.