Phelim P. Boyle (born 1941), is an Irish economist and distinguished professor and actuary, and a pioneer of quantitative finance.
[1] Born on a farm in Lavey, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, Phelim Boyle attended Dreenan School, Garron Tower and Queen's University Belfast (B.Sc.)
[6] He has been awarded the Centennial Gold Medal of the International Actuarial Association, and was the recipient of the IAFE/SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year in 2005.
Other well-known contributions in the area of quantitative finance include the use of the Trinomial method to price options.
[8] His seminal work on Monte Carlo-based option pricing facilitated the 1980s explosion in the world of derivatives.