Mark H. A. Davis

Mark Herbert Ainsworth Davis is Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London, working on stochastic analysis and mathematical finance,in particular in credit risk models, pricing in incomplete markets and stochastic volatility. He also acts as a consultant to Hanover Square Capital Partners, a newly founded capital markets company. From 1995 to 1999 he was Head of Research and Product Development at Tokyo-Mitsubishi International, leading a front-office group providing pricing models and risk analysis for fixed income, equity and credit-related products. He obtained his PhD in 1971 at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Pravin Varaiya. In 2002, he was awarded the Naylor Prize by the London Mathematical Society for his "contributions to stochastic analysis, stochastic control theory and mathematical finance" and delivered a lecture titled Optimal investment with randomly terminating income. He was a founding co-editor of the journal Mathematical Finance and is currently an associate editor of Quantitative Finance. He is the author of three books on stochastic analysis and optimization.