Peter Moles

Peter Moles MA MBA PhD

Peter Moles is on the faculty of the University of Edinburgh Management School. He took up this post following a career in the City in the international capital markets working for a number of banks, latterly for Chase Investment Bank. His responsibilities included the consultative selling of financial products, customer-related roles in product management, origination, trading, and corporate advisory. His last major post at Chase was as eurobond syndicate manager. His main research interests are in risk management, principally financial risk management, including foreign exchange management problems and the management of financial distress. He has an interest in how management decisions are made and the issues associated with managing complex problems. Training assignments have included KPMG programme, WM Company, NatWest Markets, the Advanced Management Programme in Scotland (AMPS), and Capital Markets training for PBG Bank, Lodz, Poland. He is the principal author of The Handbook of International Financial Terms, and has written two textbooks: Financial Risk Management and Derivatives. He also wrote the financial evaluation modules for the mergers and acquisitions course. He is currently engaged in editing an encyclopedia of financial engineering and risk management.