Biography
John Hull is the Maple Financial Group Professor of Derivatives and Risk Management in the
Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
He is an internationally recognized authority on financial engineering and has many publications in that area. Recently his research has focused on interest rate options, credit risk, and market risk. He was, with Alan White, one of the winners of the Nikko-LOR research competition for his work on the Hull-White interest rate model.
He has acted as consultant to many North American, Japanese, and European financial institutions. He has written two books
Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (now in its fourth edition) and
Fundamentals of Futures and Options Markets (also in its fourth edition). Both books have been translated into several languages and are widely used in trading rooms throughout the world.
Dr. Hull is the founder and current director of the
Bonham Center for Finance at the Rotman School. He has won many teaching awards and was voted Financial Engineer of the Year in 1999 by the
International Association of Financial Engineers.
In addition to the University of Toronto, Dr. Hull has taught at New York University, York University, University of British Columbia, Cranfield University, and London Business School. Earlier in his career he worked as a corporate planning analyst with British Shoe Corporation. He is currently an Associate Editor of six academic journals.
