Tutor Biographies

Dr Chris Strickland, Director, Lacima Group

Chris Strickland is a Co-founder and Director of Lacima Group which provides energy and commodities pricing, valuation and risk management software, advisory services and training world-wide. He is an Associate Research Fellow at the School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology Sydney, Australia and the Financial Options Research Centre, University of Warwick, UK. Chris consults extensively with senior executives globally in the areas of energy risk management, strategic risk assessment, and implementation of risk systems. Previously Chris worked for RBC Gilts Ltd and Kitcat and Aitken & Co in London. Chris is the co-author, with Dr Les Clewlow, of the books “Energy Derivatives Pricing and Risk Management” and “Implementing Derivatives Models” and co-editor of the book "Exotic Options: The State of the Art" and has a regular series of articles in Energy Risk Magazine. He has a First Class Honours degree in Pure Mathematics (Liverpool, UK), an MSc in Mathematics (Warwick, UK) and a PhD in Finance (Warwick).

Chris is a member Energy Risk’s Hall of Fame.

“A group of individuals whose commitment and contribution to energy markets makes them a foundation of this business who took early ideas and concepts and shaped them into real markets that today have had a significant impact on the world's trade.”

Pierre Lebon, Senior Consultant , Lacima Group

Pierre specialises in energy and commodity risk management consulting and the implementation of software solutions. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Notre Dame de Boulogne and a Masters of Financial Engineering from Leonard de Vinci University, Paris. Before joining Lacima he worked for Électricité de France as an analyst developing hedging products to start the process of trading on the newly opened French electricity market.