[1] In the mid-1990s, Mattoo was co-head of the fund derivatives group in the City at BNP Paribas.

[3] He has been credited for pioneering the use of structured products on alternative investments, especially hedge funds, that helped attract institutional assets to the hedge fund industry and contributed to its growth over the following decade.

[4] At Commerzbank he instituted a move toward neural network (machine learning) based asset allocation, launching the first Computational Intelligence group in the City under the leadership of late Prof. John G.

Mattoo is a leading commentator on alternative investments and a known critic of the traditional asset management model.

[6] Dr. Mattoo is the author of Structured Derivatives published in 1997 by the Financial Times and a co-author of books on interest rate risk management and alternative investments.