Sergio Focardi is Professor at the University of Genoa, where he teaches risk management and financial engineering. He has taught at EDHEC Business School at Stony Brook University, Princeton University, and Pôle Universitaire Léonard-de-Vinci at Paris la Défense. He is the author or coauthor of 24 books (including Adaptive Finance, published by the MIT Press) and more than 100 peer-reviewed papers.