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Ms. Tavakoli gave early warning in articles written for professional finance magazines of hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud-riddled structured products that were wildly overrated by credit rating agencies. She also gave early warnings of severe balance sheet stress due to leverage and overexposure to flawed financial products at large financial institutions: AIG, MBIA, Ambac, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and more. The University of Chicago profiled her as "Structured Success," and Business Week as "The Cassandra of Credit Derivatives." Research Magazine profiled her work in its cover story: “Finding the Culprits of the Crisis.” She has appeared as an expert before forums of the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve Bank, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Her books, Structured Finance & Collateralized Debt Obligations (2003, 2008), and Credit Derivatives (1998, 2001) revealed grave flaws in the methodology for rating structured financial products and abuses in the credit derivatives markets. For more than ten years, she has advocated to revoke the credit rating agencies’ NRSRO designation for structured financial products. Ms. Tavakoli is on the International Advisory Board for the Israel Business Conference. She is frequently published and quoted in financial journals including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, The Economist, Business Week, Fortune, HedgeWorld, Bloomberg, Risk Professional, and others. Frequent television appearances include CBS's 60 Minutes, CNN, C-Span, CNBC, BNN, CBS Evening News, Bloomberg TV, and BBC. Janet Tavakoli has over 28 years of experience in complex finance. She has traded, structured and sold derivatives and structured products at major financial institutions in New York and London. She is a former adjunct associate professor of finance at Chicago Booth (the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business) where she taught "Derivatives: Futures, Forwards, Options and Swaps." Janet Tavakoli is the former Executive Director, Head of Financial Engineering in the Global Financial Markets Division at Westdeutsche Landesbank in London. She headed market risk management for the capital markets group for Bank One in Chicago. Tavakoli headed the asset swap trading desk at Merrill Lynch in New York, headed mortgage backed securities marketing for Merrill Lynch in New York, and headed mortgage backed securities marketing to Japanese clients for PaineWebber in New York. She also worked for Bear Stearns heading marketing for quantitative research and for Goldman Sachs. During her career, she has been registered and licensed with the SFA, NASD, ASE, CBOE, NYSE, PSE and the NFA and has passed the series 7, 63 and 3 qualifying exams. Illinois Institute of Technology: B.S. in Chemical Engineering University of Chicago Graduate School of Business: MBA in Finance Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance (1999 and 2000) Chicago
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