# Stephen C. Figlewski 0 sf3 [Tenured or Tenure Track](/taxonomy/term/4799) Professor Emeritus of Finance 1976 [ Personal Website ](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~sfiglews) ![Stephen C. Figlewski profile photo](/sites/default/files/styles/480w_x_543h/public/media/sfiglews.jpg?h=89fff19e&itok=Uoslv0P-) Kaufman Management Center 44 West Fourth Street, 9-64 New York, NY 10012 9-64 0 - Ph.D., Economics, 1976 Massachusetts Institute of Technology - B.A., Economics, 1969 Princeton University - Futures and Options Stephen Figlewski is Emeritus Professor of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business. Professor Figlewski taught courses in Futures and Options at the Undergraduate, M.B.A., and Ph.D. levels Professor Figlewski has been a member of the NYU - Stern faculty since 1976. As director of the NYU Stern Derivatives Research Project, he organized numerous high profile conferences on derivatives. Over twenty years, the DRP brought in several million dollars to support the research activities of the Finance Department. His primary research interests include Derivatives, Risk Management, and Financial Markets. Professor Figlewski has published several books, including *Risk Management: The State of the Art, Financial Options: From Theory to Practice*, and *Hedging with Financial Futures for Institutional Investors: From Theory to Practice*. He is the founding editor of Journal of Derivatives, and has been published in many others, including the *Journal of Finance* and the *Journal of Financial Economics*. In addition to working at NYU - Stern, Professor Figlewski was a Vice President at the First Boston Corporation, responsible for research on equity derivatives products, and has been a market maker in stock index options at the New York Stock Exchange. He was also a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkley. Professor Figlewski received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics, summa cum laude, from Princeton University and his Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Finance - Derivatives - Risk Management - Options, Futures, and All Other Derivatives - Information and Financial Markets