Jonathon is an experienced financial services professional, who has run trading, structuring and product marketing businesses at major financial institutions in London and New York. He started his career at Goldman Sachs, and has worked at other investment banks including Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch. His experience spans credit, rates, and foreign exchange, and includes both developed markets and the emerging markets of Latin America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia.
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His focus has been on financial assets and derivatives, including credit (illiquid, structured, corporate and emerging markets), interest rates (interest rate swaps, local markets) and foreign exchange. In addition, he has been responsible for the development of several innovative hybrid products that provide risk transfer solutions to less liquid risk factors, such as longevity derivatives, life settlements, and portfolio correlation products.
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Jonathon has a variety of business interests, including the provision of boutique consulting and advisory
services to a variety of global clients. He has held elected local office as a councillor in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, where he was Lead Member for Finance, Lead Member for Family & Children’s Services, chaired the Investment Committee that oversees the borough’s pension assets (approximately $1 Billion AUM), and chaired the Western Riverside Waste Authority, responsible for waste and recycling through much of West London.
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He is founder and chairman of Your Credit Union, a mutually-owned financial services company for West Central London, and founder of Triborough Opportunities, a charity that encourages public financial literacy and promotes sustainable financial inclusion.
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Jonathon is a Professor of Finance at Luxembourg School of Business, and teaches on the Masters in Finance program at London Business School. He has taught as a Fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School, leading courses at the MBA, MFin and MPhil levels, and as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School in New York, where he has taught on the MBA and EMBA courses and supervised several research projects.
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Jonathon holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst® charterholder, holds the Certified Financial Planner™ and Professional Risk Manager certifications, and is a Chartered Financial Planner, Chartered Wealth Manager, Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute and a Fellow of the Personal Finance Society.