ILIA BOUCHOUEV
Instructor since 2020
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For over twenty years, Ilia Bouchouev has been managing Koch Global Derivatives Trading, one of the industry leaders in energy trading and options market-making. From 2012 until 2019, he also served as the president of Koch Global Partners, quantitative macro trading company specializing in interest rate, FX, and commodity trading. Ilia’s team pioneered several derivatives products, including the first oil volatility swap (2003 Risk Magazine Award), and developed various new energy markets over the years. Ilia retired from active trading at the end of 2019.
Ilia has Ph.D. in inverse problems for differential equations which he applied to develop several option pricing models and calibration methods. He also published on energy economics, financial flows and hedging pressure, and introduced “the theory of normal contango” for the oil markets.
