Nicholas Dunbar grew up in London and trained as a physicist at Manchester, Cambridge and Harvard universities. He was inspired to become a financial journalist by university friends who took their mathematical skills from academia onto the trading floors of investment banks. From 1998 until 2009, Dunbar was technical editor of Risk magazine, a specialist derivatives publication. In 2005, he launched Life & Pensions, a sister publication to Risk aimed at the insurance and pensions industry. During this time, Dunbar wrote a series of exclusive stories on derivatives blow-ups which cemented his reputation as an investigative journalist, and in 2007 he won the State Street award for institutional financial journalism. He has also written a column called 'Risky Finance' for the financial commentary service Reuters Breakingviews and currently works for Bloomberg. In 1999, Dunbar wrote his first book, Inventing Money: the story of Long-Term Capital Management and the legends behind it (Wiley, 2000). The Devil's Derivatives is his second book. For further information visit www.nickdunbar.net