Nicholas Dunbar trained as a physicist at Cambridge and Harvard universities and has been a financial journalist since 1997. From 1998 until 2009, Dunbar was technical editor of Risk magazine, a specialist derivatives and risk management publication.

In 2005, he launched Life & Pensions, a sister publication to Risk aimed at the insurance and pensions industry.

Dunbar has written many exclusive stories on derivatives, and in 2003 broke the story of Greece hiding debt using swaps with Goldman Sachs.

In 2007 he won the State Street award for institutional financial journalism.

From 2001 to 2010 he also wrote a column called ‘Risky Finance’ for the financial commentary service Reuters Breakingviews.

In 2011 he joined Bloomberg where he created and now edits the Bloomberg Risk newsletter.

In 1999, Dunbar wrote his first book, Inventing Money: the Story of Long-Term Capital Management and the Legends Behind It (Wiley, 2000).

His second book, the Devil’s Derivatives: The Untold Story of the Sick Traders and Hapless Regulators Who Almost Blew Up Wall Street, was published by Harvard Business Review Press in July 2011.

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