Janet
Tavakoli is the president
of Tavakoli Structured
Finance, a Chicago-based
firm that provides consulting
to financial institutions
and institutional investors.
Ms. Tavakoli has more
than 20 years of experience
in senior investment
banking positions, trading,
structuring and marketing
structured financial
products. She is a former
adjunct professor of
derivatives at the University
of Chicago's Graduate
School of Business. She
is the author of: Credit
Derivatives & Synthetic
Structures (John
Wiley & Sons, 1998,
2001), Structured
Finance & Collateralized
Debt Obligations (John
Wiley & Sons, 2008).
Janet Tavakoli's book on the global financial meltdown is Dear
Mr. Buffett: What An Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street (Wiley
2009) Clients
of Tavakoli Structured Finance have the benefit of proprietary
consultation, which is not available in any other paid or
public forum. Clients also commission proprietary research
and analysis.