Credit Correlation: Theory and Practice

Youssef Elouerkhaoui is a Managing Director and the Global Head of Credit Quantitative Analysis at Citi. His group supports all modelling and product development activities for Credit Markets. This includes: Flow, Correlation, Options and Exotics, CDOs and Emerging Markets. He also supports CVA, Funding and Regulatory Capital for Credit Markets. Prior to this, he was a Director in the Fixed Income Derivatives Quantitative Research Group at UBS, where he was in charge of model development for Structured Credit. Before joining UBS, Youssef was a Quantitative Research Analyst at Credit Lyonnais Supporting the Interest Rates Exotics business. He has also worked as a Senior Consultant in the Risk Analytics and Research Group at Ernst & Young. He is a graduate of Ecole Centrale Paris and he holds a PhD in Mathematics from Paris-Dauphine University.

Youssef is author to numerous professional and academic research articles in mathematical finance for both professional and academic journals, contributed to the book 'Credit Correlation: Life After Copluas' (Lipton and Rennie) and is a regular speaker at all the major quantitative finance conferences, including Risk's Quant Europe, ICBI's Global Derivatives, and WBSs Fixed Income Conference.