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Dr Espen Gaarder Haug has more than 15 years of experience in Derivatives research and trading, and has worked for more than 20 years as a trader. Until recently he worked as a proprietary trader in J.P. Morgan New York, and as a derivatives trader for two multi-billion dollar hedge funds; Amaranth Investor and Paloma Partners, located in Greenwich Connecticut. Before that he worked for Tempus Financial Engineering, Chase Manhattan Bank (now J.P. Morgan Chase) and Den Norske Bank.

He is the author of The Complete Guide of Option Pricing Formulas, which has become a reference manual among Wall Street professionals. He has a PhD from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology where he specialized in Option Valuation and Trading and has published extensively in practitioner and academic journals. He is currently considering setting up his own investment company - possibly the first Anti-Hedge fund!