Wim Schoutens is a professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He has extensive experience of quantitative finance and risk-management and is highly regarded for his consulting work to the banking industry and national and supra-national institutions. Wim is an independent expert adviser to the European Commission, has worked for the IMF and is the author of several books on quantitative finance and contingent convertible bonds (CoCos). He is also the editor of several academic journals and editor in chief of both the ‘Review of Derivatives Research' and 'Frontiers of Mathematical Finance'.