Jon Danielsson is director of Systemic Risk Centre and Reader of Finance at the London School of Economics. He has also worked for the Bank of Japan and the International Monetary Fund. Since receiving his PhD in the economics of financial markets from Duke University in 1991, Jรณnโs work has focused on how economic policy can lead to prosperity or disaster. He is an authority on both the technical aspects of risk forecasting and the optimal policies that governments and regulators should pursue in this area.