Janet Tavakoli is the president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, a derivatives risk consulting firm for financial institutions. She has worked as a chemical engineer, earned her MBA from the University of Chicago, taught derivatives as an adjunct associate professor of finance at the University of Chicago's Booth Business School (Graduate School of Business), and worked for Wall Street firms in New York, Tokyo, and London. She was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, lived in Iran during the Islamic revolution, lived in New York for a decade, lived in London for several years, and has traveled extensively for business and pleasure in Europe and Japan.
She is the author of Credit Derivatives (Three editions; Wiley 1998, 2001, and Lyons McNamara 2022), Risk (2016), Decisions: Life and Death on Wall Street (2015), , Structured Finance & Collateralized Debt Obligations (Wiley 2003, 2008), and Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street, (Wiley 2009).
The New Robber Barons (Lyons McNamara, 2013), is a compilation of her web-based commentaries since the September 2008 financial crisis through February 2012.
Archangels: Rise of the Jesuits (Lyons McNamara, 2013) is her financial-fiction debut thriller.
Unveiled Threat: A Personal Experience of Fundamentalist Islam and the Roots of Terrorism (Lyons McNamara, 2014) is a non-fiction thriller and commentary.
Ms. Tavakoli is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Business Week, Bloomberg News. Television appearances include CBS's 60 Minutes, CNN, C-Span, CNBC, BNN, CBS Evening News, Bloomberg TV, Fox, ABC, and BBC.
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