Instructor

Joseph Onochie

Practical Experience:

Mr. Onochie is an Instructor with 15+ years experience in finance as a financial consultant, an economist and a line-of-business executive. His experience in instructional design, content creation and client engagements has enabled his role as a consultant to span both the development and delivery functions.

Mr. Onochie has conducted numerous executive seminars in Asset and Mortgage Securitization, Portfolio Management (Intermediate and Advanced), Value-at-Risk Models, Risk Management, Equity Portfolio Management, Interest Rate Risk Management, Options Markets (Intermediate and Advanced), Derivatives, Bond Markets, Structured Finance, Swaps, Financial Risk Management, Asset and Liability Management (ALM) and Operational Risk Management. He also conducts numerous test preparation training programs for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Levels 1, 2, and 3 examinations. These programs have been facilitated throughout the world, including in Hong-Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Brunei, Australia, Cote D’Ivore, Senegal, Mexico, Mozambique, United Kingdom and the United States. In the past two years, Mr. Onochie has conducted training, on several aspects of Financial Risk Management, for the staff of the following Chinese financial institutions in New York: China Construction Bank, Guotai Securities Group and China Minsheng Banking Corporation.

Since 1993, Mr. Onochie has been affiliated with the Baruch College Zicklin School of Business, City University of New York. He is currently the Academic Director of the Executive MBA program, an Associate Professor of Finance and the Chairman of the Graduate Committee on Academic Standing. He previously was the Acting Director of all Executive Programs. In his role at Baruch College, Mr. Onochie has managed the 2-year Executive MBA and the 1-year Executive Master of Science in Finance programs and conducted undergraduate, graduate and executive MBA and MS Finance courses in Corporate Finance, Derivative Securities, Investments, Managerial Finance and Health Care Finance.

Mr. Onochie holds numerous advanced degrees including a Ph. D. in Financial Economics and a MA in Economics from University of New Orleans, an MBA in Finance from Tulane University, an MS in Engineering Management from University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana and a B.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering from University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Areas of Expertise:

Derivatives

Risk Management

Performance Measurement

VAR

Corporate Finance

Education:

Ph.D., Financial Economics, University of New Orleans.

M.B.A., Finance, Tulane University

M.A., Economics, University of New Orleans

M.S., Engineering Management, University of Southwest Louisiana

B.S., Petroleum Engineering, University of Idbadan (Nigeria)

Publication(s):

Among his various published works, Dr. Onochie has written a working paper entitled ''Risk and Return Characteristics of an East Asian Currency Portfolio'' for the Journal of International Financial Institutions, Money and Markets.

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