Philippe Jorion is an author, professor and risk manager. He is the author of more than 100 publications on the topic of risk management and international finance, ^[1] and is credited with pioneering the Value at Risk approach to risk management. ^[2]

Jorion's works include Financial Risk Manager Handbook and Value at Risk: The New Benchmark for Managing Financial Risk. He serves as the Chancellor’s Professor of Finance at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California at Irvine ^[3] and is a managing director at investment firm PAAMCO where he heads the Risk Management group. ^[4]

Jorion has received several awards honoring excellence in research and financial writing, including two from the CFA Institute. ^[5] Jorion holds an MBA and a PhD from the University of Chicago and a degree in engineering from ULB Brussels. ^[6]

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