Avner Wolf, Ph.D. is Executive Director of International Programs, Academic Director EMSF at Baruch College, New York.  His research is in the area of derivative financial markets, investment, portfolio management, fixed income and security market microstructure. While working on his dissertation, Avner served as a staff economist in COMEX where he designed the futures gold and silver options.

Avner was a Chairman of the Department of Economics and Finance at Baruch College’s, Zicklin School of Business, for the past 12 years where he initiated and launched Executive Master of Science programs in finance, marketing and human resource management in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore; and is now in the process of starting these programs in Shanghai and Paris. He has published numerous papers in academic as well as in professional journals and worked with financial institutions worldwide on a variety of projects on derivatives. He has co-authored the book The Handbook of Interest Rate Risk Management.

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