George Szpiro

George G. Szpiro is an award-winning author and journalist. A longtime correspondent for the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung, his many books include Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present (2010) and Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation (2011).

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) The Hebrew University (1975 — 1984)
• Master of Business Administration (MBA) Stanford University Graduate School of Business (1973 — 1975)
• Master's Degree Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (1968 — 1972)
• Master of Science (M.Sc.) Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (1968 — 1972)

Companies

• Correspondent Neue Zürcher Zeitung (1986)
• Lecturer The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1986 — 1992)
• Assistant Professor The Wharton School (1984 — 1986)
• Associate (part time) McKinsey & Company (1977 — 1984)

Skills

• Journalism