# Nobel Laureate Prof. Robert Engle is profiled

1 Faculty News May 4, 2012 ![Risk Management Magazine logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030875.jpg?itok=EiCScKEb)>

Excerpt from [Risk Magazine](http://www.risk.net/risk-magazine/profile/2169457/profile-nyu-s-robert-engle-volatility-liquidity-systemic-risk) -- "Unlike many in the quantitative finance world, [Robert Engle](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-engle), the Michael Armellino professor of finance at New York University (NYU) is no physicist or mathematician – he is an economist through and through. Before going into finance, he worked in urban economics and econometrics, and even studied the effect of weather on electricity demand ... "

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