For Immediate Release
GARP ANNOUNCES NEW COLLEGE CHAPTER AT HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK
New York, London, Beijing, August 4, 2008 — The Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP: www.garp.org), the leading professional Association dedicated to the advancement of the risk profession, is pleased to announce a new College Chapter at Hofstra University in New York.
Dr. Ahmet K. Karagozoglu has been appointed College Chapter Director for the University. Dr. Karagozoglu currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance, Frank G. Zarb School of Business at Hofstra University.
Hofstra Quants & Traders (HQT) will be the main student organization sponsor of GARP’s College Chapter at Hofstra. Dr. Karagozoglu is the faculty advisor and one of the founders of HQT. Dr. Karagozoglu will be both the academic adviser of HQT and the GARP College Chapter Director. This dual role will allow him to promote GARP and risk management much more efficiently among Hofstra students.
"We are very pleased to add Hofstra University to our list of College Chapters. Risk management is a rapidly growing and important dimension of financial markets today and we believe that GARP's College Chapters offer an ideal means of introducing students to the risk management profession", states Christopher Donohue, Managing Director of the GARP Research Center.
Chairperson of the Department of Finance, Dr. Nancy White, stated that “The department fully supports the establishment of GARP College Chapter at Hofstra and I am looking forward to the successful events our GARP College Chapter will organize under Dr. Karagozoglu’s leadership and the sponsorship of Hofstra Quants & Traders.”
To network with Dr. Karagozoglu and local GARP members, join the Hofstra University College Chapter Group on GARP's On-line Community by clicking here.
GARP currently has a total of 8 College Chapter Directors representing 7 academic institutions in 5 countries around the world.
About Dr. Ahmet K. Karagozoglu
Dr. Ahmet Karagozoglu, Associate Professor of Finance, is the Academic Director of the Martin B. Greenberg Trading Room and the faculty adviser of Hofstra Quants & Traders Club (HQT). Dr. Karagozoglu’s teaching focuses on options, futures, financial modeling and risk management.
Dr. Karagozoglu's primary research interests are in the area of futures markets, option pricing, market microstructure, interest rate derivatives and risk management. His work has been published in the Journal of Futures Markets, the Financial Review, the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, the Journal of Fixed Income, the Review of Futures Markets, and the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. He has presented papers at the annual conferences of the Financial Management Association, the Eastern Finance Association, the Midwest Finance Association, the Multinational Finance Society, and the International Association of Financial Engineers. He has also presented his research at the Asia-Pacific Futures Research Symposium and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and was invited to participate Chicago Board of Trade Research Seminar.
Prior to coming to Hofstra University, Dr. Karagozoglu taught full-time at Baruch College both at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Dr. Karagozoglu has provided risk management consulting to commodities funds.
About GARP
The Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) is a not-for-profit independent association of over 78,000 risk management practitioners and researchers representing banks, investment management firms, government agencies, academic institutions, and corporations from more than 167 countries worldwide. It also administers the Financial Risk Manager (FRM®), the certification recognized by financial risk professionals worldwide. GARP’s mission is to be the leading professional association for risk managers, managed by and for its members dedicated to the advancement of the risk profession through education, training and the promotion of best practices globally. www.garp.org.
Contact
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