Professor Julian Williams

Biography	Julian has been Chair in Accounting and Finance and professor of Finance at Durham University’s Business School since the start of 2014. He has been part of the Department of Finance since its creation in 2022. Prof William's work is at the nexus between financial modelling (valuation and asset/capital allocation) and operational modelling of organizations. He is very interested in both empirical and theoretical models (usually game theory or dynamic programming) of decision making under uncertainty and he generally teaches in areas relating to financial decision making and operational risk as well as econometrics and applied statistics. Julian has been the scientific director of the European Commission project SECONOMICS, worked on the Technology Strategy Board funded project Cloud Stewardship Economics, lead on Durham’s participation in the SESAR SJU, principal investigator on two industry Fintech projects on international currency risk and derivatives pricing and co-investigator on several other projects including the Living Deltas GCRF hub and Agency funded by UKRI.
Research Interests	Market Microstructure Liquidity Trading Behaviour and Algorithmic Trading Information security and operational security for financial firms and governments

Biography

Julian has been Chair in Accounting and Finance and professor of Finance at Durham University’s Business School since the start of 2014. He has been part of the Department of Finance since its creation in 2022.

Prof William's work is at the nexus between financial modelling (valuation and asset/capital allocation) and operational modelling of organizations. He is very interested in both empirical and theoretical models (usually game theory or dynamic programming) of decision making under uncertainty and he generally teaches in areas relating to financial decision making and operational risk as well as econometrics and applied statistics.

Julian has been the scientific director of the European Commission project SECONOMICS, worked on the Technology Strategy Board funded project Cloud Stewardship Economics, lead on Durham’s participation in the SESAR SJU, principal investigator on two industry Fintech projects on international currency risk and derivatives pricing and co-investigator on several other projects including the Living Deltas GCRF hub and Agency funded by UKRI.

Research Interests

Market Microstructure
Liquidity
Trading Behaviour and Algorithmic Trading
Information security and operational security for financial firms and governments