Phelim Boyle

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Dr. Phelim Boyle is a Professor of Finance in the School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. (Until June 2006 he held the J Page R Wadsworth Chair at the University of Waterloo). In 1977 his seminal work on Monte Carlo option pricing was published, facilitating the 1980s explosion in the world of derivatives. He continues to contribute in the area of quantitative finance. He is an actuary, and has also published papers on actuarial science and demography.

He has been awarded the Centennial Gold Medal of the International Actuarial Association and was the recipient of the IAFE/SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year in 2005.

Born on a farm in Lavey, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, Phelim Boyle attended Dreenan School, Garron Tower, Queen's University Belfast and earned his PhD in Applied Math specialising in Physics from Trinity College, Dublin. Together with his son, Feidhlim Boyle, he authored "Derivatives: the Tools that Changed Finance", a highly readable explanation of the world of derivatives.

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