2013 – 2019 Associate Editor: Journal of Banking and Finance (JBF)
Rudi Zagst studied business mathematics at the University of Ulm. After his dissertation in the field of stochastic dynamic optimization, he started his professional career at HypoVereinsbank AG. There, he worked as Head of Product Development in the Institutional Investment Management before transferring to Allfonds International Asset Management GmbH as Head of Consulting and finally becoming Managing Director of RiskLab GmbH – Private Research Institute for Financial Studies in 1997.
Since 1992, Prof. Zagst has held various teaching assignments at the Universities of Augsburg, St. Gallen, Munich, Toronto, Ulm and Singapore. After completing his habilitation in 2000 at the University of Ulm, Prof. Zagst accepted a call to the Technical University of Munich as Professor of Mathematical Finance in 2001, where he is Head of the Department of Mathematical Finance and Head of the ERGO Center of Excellence in Insurance. His research focuses on financial engineering, risk and asset management.
In 2003, Prof. Zagst was appointed a second member of the Faculty of Economics. Since 2004 he has been Deputy Chairman of the joint elite degree program “Finance & Information Management” of the Technical University of Munich and the University Bayreuth. Prof. Zagst works on a voluntary basis in the Munich Financial Center Initiative (FPMI) of the Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, in the Advisory Board of the Bavarian Research Foundation and as the Executive Board member of Ecuadorhilfe Stuttgart e.V.
In 2007, Prof. Zagst was honored by the magazine Unicum Profession with the award “Professor of the Year 2007” for his commitment to a practical education of his students.
