Marcos C. S. Carreira, a PhD candidate at Ecole Polytechnique, is an experienced quantitative finance practitioner with more than 20 years' experience working in Brazilian capital markets. He was Derivative Products Officer and later Technical Modeling Officer at BM&FBovespa, where he contributed to risk management, derivatives pricing, exchange fees, microstructure and HFT functions. At Credit Suisse Brazil, he was a Managing Director in charge of the FX and IR Options desk, after being the Risk Manager responsible for Market, Counterparty and Liquidity Risks. He started his career in Finance/Product Control at Banco de Investimentos Garantia. Marcos holds an engineering degree from Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA) and a Masters in Economics at Insper. Marcos also lectured for the MECAI Professional Masters course in Mathematical Finance at ICMC-USP and is a regular speaker at quantitative finance conferences.
