Manu Maurette

Manu Maurette, Ph.D., is Head of Operations for LATAM and Europe at KDOA. After several years of research in Differential Equations he started working in Quantitative Finance and Model Risk Management. During his years as an analyst, his work mainly consisted in the validation, development, and testing of pricing and risk models including curve building and volatility surface algorithms.

For the last six years he has been leading talented teams in several areas of quant finance focused on validating and developing models. In particular, he has focused on derivatives pricing, market risk, margin, and in the last few years, qualitative and expert judgement credit models (including CECL/IFRS 9). He keeps a close bond with the academic world that includes more than fifteen years of lecturing and, in the past few years, coordinating post graduate programs and organizing quant finance regional conferences.