Jamil Baz is a Lebanese-born financial economist based in
Newport Beach, California
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.
Early life
Baz was born in 1959 into a Christian Lebanese family. He was schooled at a Jesuit college, Notre Dame de Jamhour, in Lebanon. He pursued his studies in France, the UK and the US. He earned a Diploma from the
Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales
HEC Paris (french: École des hautes études commerciales de Paris) is a business school, and one of the most prestigious and selective grandes écoles, located in Jouy-en-Josas, France. HEC offers Master in Management, MSc International Fi ...
, an M.Sc. from the
London School of Economics, a master's degree from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management and an MA and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Career
Baz is a managing director at PIMCO. Prior to PIMCO, he was a senior managing director and chief investment strategist of the
Man Group, a managing director in the Proprietary Trading Group of
Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs () is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan, with regional headquarters in London, Warsaw, Bangalore, H ...
, chief investment strategist of
Deutsche Bank and managing director of
Lehman Brothers. Baz started his career at the World bank where he traded the derivatives portfolio and advised Central Banks on the management of foreign exchange reserves and external debt. He teaches
financial economics at
Oxford University, and is on the teaching staff of the
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford; he has also taught at
Georgetown University and
Harvard University.
Personal life
He is married to Zeina Farhat and has three children: Maurice, Elena and Alexandra.
References
*https://www.amazon.com/Financial-Derivatives-Pricing-Applications-Mathematics/dp/0521066794
*https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/members/students/postgraduate-courses/msc-mathematical-finance-part-time/information-applicants-pa-0
*https://www.reuters.com/article/allianz-moves-idUSL3N1634LV
*https://www.pimco.com/experts/jamil-baz
*https://www.ft.com/content/418ceb14-c45d-11e1-9c1e-00144feabdc0
*https://www.ft.com/content/580fa460-8e8d-11df-964e-00144feab49a
*https://www.ft.com/content/71b38230-da3e-11e5-a72f-1e7744c66818
*https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-30/pimco-s-baz-says-japan-in-a-bind-as-total-debt-tops-600-of-gdp
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List of quantitative analysts
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of the London School of Economics
MIT Sloan School of Management alumni
Harvard University alumni
Financial economists
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