Dr. Uwe Wystup

Uwe Wystup is managing director of MathFinance AG, Professor of Financial Option Price Modeling and Foreign Exchange Derivatives at University of Antwerp and Honorary Professor of Quantitative Finance at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Public Expert on Currency and Interest Rate Management at the Chamber of Commerce and judge at the financial court and judge at the commercial court in Germany. Before, he has actively worked in FX derivatives trading as Financial Engineer, Global Structured Risk Manager and Advisor since 1992, including Citibank, UBS, Sal. Oppenheim and Commerzbank. He is a member of the FOREX board at Allied European Financial Markets Association. He is one of the few hybrids in the world working in the intersection of the derivates market and academic research. Uwe earned his PhD in mathematical finance from Carnegie Mellon University.  

His first book Foreign Exchange Risk was published in 2002, quickly became the market standard and has also been translated into Mandarin. His second book FX and Structured Products appeared in 2006, its 2nd edition in 2017. Many of his papers appeared in scientific journals. Uwe writes the FX Column in Wilmott magazine.