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Programme Director and Speakers
The OCP is a professionally-taught programme using trainers with both practitioner experience and training expertise both gained over many years in the securities industry. The members of the faculty are:
1. Keith Dickinson
Keith is Programme Director for the Operations Certificate Programme (OCP). His career spans a 35 year period formerly in operations management, both on the banking as well as the fund management side, and latterly the training business. His training covers a wide variety of operational topics and delivered courses internationally. Keith is the author of three books and one of the early holders of the AIBD Certificate (now the OCP Certificate).
2. John D. Evans CFA
John is a full-time member of the academic staff of the ICMA Centre, University of Reading and is also the Programme Director for the centre's MSc Investment Management. He is Programme Director for the ICMA IFID and Foundation Course certificate programmes. Prior to academia, John spent twenty years in the fixed income market on Toronto, New York and London in areas of research, origination and sales and trading.
3. Mike Simmons
Mike is an independent training consultant and has been involved with the capital markets and operations throughout his career, focusing originally upon securities settlement and more recently on the broader aspects of operations (e.g. derivatives, trade finance, payments, corporate finance and corporate lending). Mike is also the author of two books on the subject published by Wiley Finance, including the book Securities Operations: A Guide to Trade and Position Management, published in 2002, which all candidates are provided with a copy of.
4. Neil Schofield
Neil Schofield is a Visiting Fellow at the ICMA Centre and specialises in interest rate markets though also teaches all of the major asset classes and their respective derivative products from foreign exchange through to commodities. He lectures on both the MSc degrees at the Centre and also with ICMA Executive Education.
Both before and during his tenor at the Centre he was Global Head of Financial Markets training at Barclays Capital, from 2001 to 2008. Prior to joining Barclays Capital he was a director at Chisholm Roth Training where trained a number of blue chip global investment banks for 4 years.
Neil started his training career at Chase Manhattan Bank, where he was employed as an internal auditor for nine years. During this time he conducted numerous internal and external training seminars with clients including the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve System in the USA. He has also held positions with Security Pacific Hoare Govett (now trading as Bank of America) and Lloyds TSB.
He holds a BSc in Economics from Loughborough University and an MBA from Manchester Business School. He was elected as a Fellow of the IFS School of Finance (formerly the Chartered Institute of Bankers) in 1999.
Neil is author of the book ‘Commodity Derivatives’ published by Wiley in November 2007. He is currently writing a second book “Relative Value in Financial Markets” to be published in 2010.
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