Satyajit Das

Satyajit Das
Born	1957 Calcutta, India
Alma mater	University of New South Wales; Australian Graduate School of Management
Occupation(s)	Consultant, author, former banker
Years active	1977–present
Known for	Author of Traders, Guns & Money; Extreme Money; A Banquet of Consequences

Satyajit Das (born 1957) is an Australian consultant and author, formerly engaged in banking and corporate treasury roles.

Early life and education

Originally from Calcutta, India, Das relocated to Australia when he was 12 years old. He earned bachelor's degrees in Commerce and Law from the University of New South Wales and completed an MBA at the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Career

From 1977 until 1987, Das held positions within the banking sector at institutions including Commonwealth Bank, CitiGroup, and Merrill Lynch. He then took on the role of Treasurer at TNT Transport Group from 1988 through 1994.

As an author, Das has written Traders, Guns & Money, Extreme Money, along with several authoritative texts on derivatives and risk management. He currently lives in Sydney.

Extreme Money was included on the longlist for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. The Economist acknowledged Das’s insights drawn from his background in investment banking and consultancy, while noting that the book might have benefited from greater brevity.

His 2015 publication A Banquet of Consequences was issued in the United States and India under the title The Age of Stagnation in 2016 to distinguish it from other similarly named works.

Das frequently provides commentary on economic and financial topics on Late Night Live, a program broadcast by Radio National and hosted by Phillip Adams.

Selected publications

• Swaps and Financial Derivatives: the global reference to products, pricing, applications and markets (1994, Law Book Company)
• Swaps/Financial Derivatives: products, pricing, applications and risk management (2004, Wiley)
• Derivative Products and Pricing: The Das Swaps and Financial Derivatives Library (2005, Wiley)
• In Search of the Pangolin - Eco-travel Tales (2006, New Holland Publishers Ltd)
• Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives (2006, FT Press)
• Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk (2011, FT Press)
• A Banquet of Consequences: Have We Consumed Our Own Future? (2015, Penguin Books Australia)
• The Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth is Unattainable and the Global Economy is in Peril (2016, Prometheus Books)