10.07.09 16:59 Age: 134 days
Dr. Germán Creamer joined the Howe School faculty
By: Sharen Glennon
Stevens Institute of Technology is pleased to announce that Dr. Germán Creamer has been been jointly employed by the Howe School of Technology Management, where he will teach in the new Quantitative Finance Program and the School of Systems and Enterprises, teaching in their graduate Financial Engineering Program.
Germán Creamer has been a senior manager in the Risk, Information and Banking Division in American Express where he worked in the calculation of economic capital for international markets and developing information systems capabilities for the enterprise-wide risk management and the customer marketing groups. He has taught at Columbia University, Tulane University, and in several leading Latin American business schools. Germán has been the manager of planning and economic studies at Banco del Pacífico (Ecuador), program officer for the United Nations Development Programme, economic advisor to the president of Ecuador, and to the government of Equatorial Guinea. He has also consulted for several hedge funds and international organizations such as United Nations Development Programme, World Bank, Harvard Institute of International Development, and US Agency for International Development.
Germán has a PhD in Computer Science (specialized on computational finance), a MSc in Financial Engineering, both from Columbia University, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Notre Dame. He has published several books and articles, and presented several papers in major conferences in his area of specialization. He is also a CFA charter holder. His current area of research is on risk management, trading systems, financial information systems and data mining/machine learning applications to finance.
