It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce that Dr. Jim Gatheral will join the Baruch MFE Program in August 2010 as a tenured Professor in the Mathematics Department at Baruch College, City University of New York.

Dr. Jim Gatheral, one of the top quants in the world and author of the best selling book “The Volatility Surface: A Practitioner’s Guide“, has been a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch for 17 years.

Dr. Gatheral’s addition to our faculty will offer our students the rare opportunity to learn first hand from a preeminent practitioner.

We are looking forward to having Jim in our department and program, and to learning from him, for a long time to come.