Kevin Erker
Adjunct Lecturer
Kevin Erker
Kevin Erker, JD CFA is a financial risk management and quantitative finance professional as well as a lawyer and member of the Illinois Bar Association. Kevin has a decade of experience as a business school instructor, teaching courses on quantitative methods, derivatives valuation, and economics for decision-making. Kevin currently serves as an attorney and model integration team lead at Quantitative Risk Management, Inc., a prominent financial risk management consulting firm in Chicago, London and Singapore. In terms of his educational background, Kevin has earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics from Santa Clara University, a Master of Science in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago and a Juris Doctor focusing on Business Law from the Chicago-Kent College of Law. Further, Kevin is a Chartered Financial Analyst with the CFA® Institute and has attained the level of Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst from the Society of Actuaries. In his pro bono legal work, Kevin has experience in foreclosure defense, mediation and low-income home loan refinancing negotiations in Cook County through work with Chicago Volunteer Legal Services.
Area of Expertise
Econometrics, Economics, Law and Economics, Asset Pricing, Banking and Financial Institutions, Finance/Investments, Financial Economics, Option Pricing, Simulation Modeling, Statistics/Econometrics, Stochastic Processes
Education
- JD 2015, Chicago-Kent College of Law
- MS 2007, University of Chicago
- BS 2005, Santa Clara University