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Satyajit Das's Biography
Satyajit
Das is an internationally respected expert in finance, with over 35 years'
experience in capital markets. He has worked for the 'sell side' (with banks
such as Commonwealth Bank, CitiBank and Merrill Lynch), the 'buy side' (as
Treasurer of the TNT Group) and now acts as a consultant advising banks,
investors, corporations and central banks throughout the world.
Das is the author of many highly regarded books on derivatives and risk
management, which are regarded as standard reference works for professional
traders.
In 2006, he published the international bestseller Traders, Guns & Money:
Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives, a satirical insider's
account of derivatives trading. In Traders and a series of 2006 speeches - The
Coming Credit Crash - he provided a highly prescient insight into the structure
and risk of the world financial system exposing the problems that subsequently
became apparent.
In 2010, his article 'The Year of Wishful Thinking', Satyajit Das anticipated
the sovereign debt crisis. That year, in another article titled 'The China
Syndrome' and a follow-up 2012 piece 'All Feasts Must End', he drew attention
to the unsustainable nature of China's economic success and the risk of
slowdown in growth. In 2011 paper 'Financial Fetishes', he drew attention to the
ineffectiveness of policy options, especially the increasing dependence of
monetary measures such as quantitative easing and the difficulty of reversing
such actions. In the same year, he identified Australia's fragile prospects and
looming slowdown and challenges.
His latest book is Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk
(2011), which was described by Nouriel Roubini, Professor of Economics at NYU
Stern School of Business and Chairman of Roubini Global Economics as 'a true
insider's devastating analysis of the financial alchemy of the last 30 years
and its destructive consequences. With his intimate first-hand knowledge, Das
takes a knife to global finance and financiers to reveal its inner workings
without fear or favour.'
Satyajit Das was
featured in Charles Ferguson's 2010 Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, the
2012 PBS Frontline series Money, Power & Wall Street and 2009 BBC TV
documentary Tricks with Risk. He is a frequent interviewee and widely quoted in
the financial press globally. Das was honoured as one of the Most Influential
50 - The Bankers and Investors Who Move Markets by Bloomberg.
He has been a featured speaker at financial conferences throughout the world as
well as at the Sydney Writers Festival, Melbourne Writers Festival, Adelaide
Festival of Ideas and Sydney's Festival of Dangerous Ideas.