Espen Gaarder Haug, has more than 15 years of experience in derivatives trading and research. He has worked as a proprietary option trader at J.P. Morgan Chase in New York, and as an option trader for the hedge funds Amaranth Advisors and Paloma Partners. Dr. Haug has published extensively in journals such as "Quantitative Finance", "International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance", and "Wilmott Magazine". He is also a popular lecturer on option pricing, hedging, and risk management and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology.