Professor Didier Sornette (photo) presented insights into the workings of financial crises at a special presentation to ETH Alumni last Thursday evening.
Sornette, who is a member of the Swiss Finance Institute faculty, holds the ETH Chair of Entrepreneurial Risk at the Department of Management, Technology and Economics.
The Department is one of several ETH research departments involved in an agreement with the Swiss Finance Institute, signed last December, that enables selected ETH faculty to become affiliated with the Institute.
Originally trained in the physical sciences, Didier Sornette's ideas about financial crises appear regularly in the press. He recently commented on the involvement of Swiss banks in the credit crisis that continues to affect the stability of global financial markets.
