Mehraj Mattoo
Mehraj Mattoo | |
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| Born | India |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London (MSc, PhD) |
| Occupation(s) | Economist, investment banker, author |
| Years active | 1980s–present |
| Known for | ALI Fellow, senior fellow at Harvard University; former global head of asset management at Commerzbank AG; managing director at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein; co-leader of fund derivatives division at BNP Paribas |
Mehraj Mattoo is a British economist, investment banker, and author, recognized as an ALI Fellow and senior fellow at Harvard University. He formerly held the position of global head of asset management at Commerzbank AG and was managing director at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, the investment banking division of Dresdner Bank AG, which ranked as Germany's second-largest bank. During the mid-1990s, Mattoo co-led the fund derivatives division at BNP Paribas. He was instrumental in developing structured products focused on alternative investments, especially hedge funds, which supported institutional capital inflows and contributed to sector expansion. At Commerzbank, he spearheaded the adoption of neural network-driven (machine learning) asset allocation strategies, founding the City's first Computational Intelligence team under the guidance of Prof. John G. Taylor.
Originally from India, Mattoo completed both his MSc and PhD at Imperial College London, where he was the inaugural NatWest Research Fellow between 1986 and 1989. He also held a visiting research scholar role at the MIT Sloan School of Management. As a well-known expert on alternative investments, Mattoo offers critical perspectives on conventional asset management frameworks. His publications include Structured Derivatives (1997), along with co-authored texts addressing interest rate risk management and alternative investment strategies.
In 2015, Mattoo was named an advanced leadership fellow at Harvard University, advancing to senior fellow status in 2016.
See also
- Derivative (finance)
- Structured products
- Hedge funds
- Prominent Alumni of Imperial College
- Prominent Alumni of Harvard University