Dr. George Cooper
Dr. George Cooper, Equitile’s Chief Investment Officer and Founder, leads the firm’s investment process.
He has over 30 years’ experience in finance, holding senior investment and strategy roles at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank and BlueCrest Capital. He founded Equitile to build an independent firm run by investors for investors.
His books outline many of Equitile’s core ideas. The Origin of Financial Crises, published shortly before Lehman’s collapse, explains why markets are inherently unstable, prone to bubbles and distorted by central bank policy. Fixing Economics argues that flawed models of human behaviour undermine economic theory.
George says his hobby is writing about flaws in financial markets while his day job is profiting from them. Before finance, he worked at Fujitsu as a semiconductor engineer making DRAM chips. He holds a BSc in Physics and a PhD in Engineering from Durham University.