Dr Riaz Ahmad is full-time director at 7city for all mathematical and computational finance based courses. In addition he oversees 7city’s Quantitative Finance series and consults on mathematical finance issues to City Institutions. Riaz received advanced degrees in mathematics from University College London and Imperial College London. He has held academic positions and lectured in mathematical finance at University College London (UCL), Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and Oxford University (Mathematical Institute). His research and academic interests are in the theoretical and computational methods for derivative pricing and Islamic finance.