Piotr Karasinski

Piotr Karasinski is a pioneering quantitative analyst, best known for the Black–Karasinski short rate model which he co-developed with the late Fischer Black. His contributions to quantitative finance  include models for interest rates, equity and hybrid products and random volatility.

He is currently Senior Advisor at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He is on the editorial board of the journal, Quantitative Finance.  Previously, he has held a number of positions at leading firms in New York and London including: Managing Director at HSBC, Director and Head Derivatives Research at Citibank, MD at Chemical Bank, Director at Deutsche Bank and Vice President at Goldman Sachs.

He studied physics at Warsaw University (MSc 1978) and earned his PhD at Yale University (1984).

References

External links
 Biography, Global Association of Risk Professionals
 profile, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford 

Category:Polish economists
Category:Yale University alumni
Category:University of Warsaw alumni
Category:Financial economists
Category:Goldman Sachs people
Category:Living people
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)