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Founding Director, The Brevan Howard Centre for Finance


Founding Director, The Brevan Howard Centre for Finance

Salary, competitive with the global elite, is negotiable and dependent on experience

The Brevan Howard Centre for Finance, supported by a visionary and substantial gift from the hedge fund Brevan Howard, aspires to create in London a truly world-class centre for research in financial economics, and to disseminate its findings to the business and policy communities.

Fully funded to include substantial investment in new and world-class faculty, with appropriate administrative support and a bespoke PhD programme, the Centre will be based in the Business School at Imperial College London. The School now seeks to appoint a Founding Director, an academic of global repute to lead the establishment of the Centre, articulate its vision further, and recruit a number of new faculty to deliver its mission, including senior professorial appointments.

Imperial College London is one of the world’s leading science-focused universities, which for many years has been ranked in the global top 10 by the THES world rankings. Its four faculties – Engineering, Medicine, Natural Sciences and Business – together have an annual income of almost £800 million. Its departments of Mathematics and Computing offer complementary resources on which the Centre may wish to draw.

Imperial College Business School is typical of Imperial’s ambition. Since 2003, the School has risen by nearly 40 places in the global Financial Times rankings and has tripled its income. The Business School, and Imperial College, are committed to continued growth and further quality enhancement to create a genuinely world-class business school.

The position of Founding Director of the Brevan Howard Centre is thus a unique opportunity to build Europe’s leading centre in Financial Economics, within a campus of acknowledged rigour and proven ambition. Further information, including details of how to apply, can be downloaded at www.perrettlaver.com/candidates quoting reference 1241. The deadline for applications is 12.00 noon GMT on Monday 25th March 2013.