About Me
- Dr Nikan Firoozye
- Dr Nikan Firoozye has over 18 years experience in finance in a variety of mostly fixed income roles: Strat, Quant Strat, EM Rsrch, MBS/ABS Rsrch & Securitization, Structuring, Asset Alloc and Risk Mgt and RV Trading at banks and fund managers, including Lehman, Sanford Bernstein/Alliance, Deutsche, Goldman, and Citadel and Nomura. *His skills are in quant finance, modelling and structuring, legal technicals for structuring, risk mgt, portfolio construction and analysis, macro forecasting, algo and rv trade analysis, HFT, strategy, exotics design and structuring and Islamic Finance. He started running Islamic Finance Resources in Jan 2009 and co-mgr of LinkedIn group Global Islamic Funds & Sukuk. *BS, Harvey Mudd; PhD, Math-Nonlin PDE, Courant Inst, NYU. Postdoc in MN (IMA), Edinburgh, Bonn, NYU. Asst Prof at UIUC. *Married with two children.