Certified Trainers
The IIPER accredited trainers
Are scholars and professors with the highest practical and theoretical experience in risk management methodologies and quantitative methods and techniques for teaching and learning.
The trainers meet or exceed rigorous standards for quality and effectiveness of professional education, and they are recertified every three years based on their continuing education, research, and customer satisfaction.
They are highly involved in teaching, delivery, professional impact, organisation, and quality and academic standards of the Certified in Quantitative Risk Management (IIPER-CQRM) accreditation.
Certified Trainers
Prof. Dr. Timotej Jagrič
PhD.Mgmt, PhD.QEcon, MSc, BSc, CQRM
Head of the Institute for Finance and Banking at the University of Maribor.
Full professor of applied economics and econometrics and full professor of finance. He works at University of Maribor, at the Department for Finance and is Head of the Institute for Finance and Banking. He gives classes on undergraduate, graduate and PhD level at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Faculty for natural sciences and mathematics and other Universities in and outside Slovenia. He was visiting researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin in the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 649 "Economic Risk".
He has worked ad chairmen of the supervisory board of the largest re-insurance company in Slovenia, as member of the Strategic council of the government of the Republic of Slovenia, and as advisor for many government and other public institutions in CEE region. He is actively working as consultant in the field of risk management, especially for financial institutions, and is member of the steering committee of the Slovenian risk association - SI.RISK.
He also cooperates with Austrian company Altran in the field of data science and artificial intelligence. He has published papers in top ranked journals and actively participates on scientific and professional conferences around the world. Timotej Jagric, received his first PhD from University of Maribor and his second PhD from University of Primorska. He is Certified in Quantitative Risk Management (CQRM).
Prof. Dr. Yilmaz Guney
PhD, MSc, BSc, FHEA
Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance.
Yilmaz Guney is a senior lecturer in accounting and finance and programme leader for the MSc in Financial Management at Hull University Business School. He was formerly a lecturer at the University of Surrey's Management School for five years. His first degree is in economics, with an MSc and PhD in finance.
He has worked on consulting projects for companies including QCi Ltd. Dr Guney is the European editor of the International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance.
Prof. Dr. Dr. Robert Hudson
BSc(Hons), MA, PhD, CMath, FIA
Professor of Finance.
Professor Robert Hudson is a Professor of Finance at Hull University Business School where he teaches on a number of executive, postgraduate and undergraduate modules.Prior to this post, Robert was a Professor of Finance and head of the economics group at the University of Newcastle and, prior to that, a senior lecturer at the University of Leeds.
He has extensive business and consultancy experience and before entering the academic world, worked in the financial services industry for a number of years. As a result, Robert is committed to linking his teaching and research to practice.
Co editor Review of Behavioral Finance, Assistant Editor of British Actuarial Journal, Editorial Board Member of Finance Research Letters, and Editorial Board Member Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance.
Prof. Dr. Pervaiz Aktar
University of Hull
Full Professor (Chair) of Management Systems and Director of BSc Logistics
Dr Pervaiz Akhtar is Full Professor (Chair) of Management Systems and Director of BSc Logistics & Supply Chain Management at the University of Hull, UK. He made the list of 155 academics in the UK (0.00080%, out of 194245) who achieved their Professorship between the ages of 31 and 35 as per HESA records (www.hesa.ac.uk). He is a member of the university's Academic Executive Council and has served as the director for multiple programs. He also holds Visiting Professorships in Big Data Analytics at IESEG School of Management (France) and Abasyn University (Pakistan).
Capitalizing on over 15 years of academic and industrial experience, his areas of expertise encompass big data and business analytics, information systems, innovative research methods/techniques, performance measurement, logistics, and transportation and operations to supply chain planning and control.
He particularly emphasizes the applications of big data analytics, machine learning, modelling, information technology, and contemporary mixed methods to optimize operational performance, supply chains and business value. His research has appeared in top-ranked journals such as the International Journal of Operations & Production Management, British Journal of Management, Business Ethics, International Journal of Production Economics, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Industrial Marketing Management (Methodology Section), Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, and Journal of Business Research, among others.
Prof. Dr. Luis Enrique Pedauga
PhD.Econ, MA, BA (Hons)
Assistant Professor and Senior Consultant.
Dr. Pedauga is assistant professor at the Department of Economics and Statistics at the University of Leon (Spain). He graduated in Business Administration and Economics. He received his Ph.D. in Empirical Economics specialised in Financial stability, bank competition and consolidation.
Research Fellow at the University of Granada (Spain), lecturer at the Catholic University Andrés Bello (Venezuela), and visiting researcher at Bangor University (UK) and the University of Reading (UK). Also, has worked as a Financial & Economic Analyst at the Central Bank of Venezuela. His research interests are aimed to provide theoretical and empirical advances on financial economic modelling. In particular, linkages between macro-financial policy and financial stability issues.
Dr. Pedauga has published in top international journals, including Economic System Research, Monetaria, Regional Studies, Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting, Business Strategy and the Environment, Interactive Learning Environments and Organization & Environment, among others.
Prof. Dr. Calie Pistorius
B.Sc(Eng), B.Eng(Hons), MS and PhD
Chief Executive Officer and Innovation Expert.
Dr Calie Pistorius is the Chief Executive of DeltaHedron Ltd, a globally-connected business consulting firm based in the United Kingdom, managing technological innovation, with a focus on the strategic impact, opportunities, risks and threats presented by emerging technologies and the dynamics of technological change.
Previously he was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the UK (Sep 2009-Jan 2017), the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria (UP) (Aug 2001- Aug 2009) in South Africa; and the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment and Information Technology, Director of the Institute for Technological Innovation (ITI) and the Director of Information Technology at UP. He is also a former chair of the National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI) in South Africa.
He obtained B.Sc(Eng) and B.Eng(Hons) degrees in electronics engineering from the University of Pretoria in 1979 and 1981 (cum laude), MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the Ohio State University in 1984 and 1986, and the SM degree in the management of technology from MIT in 1994. He is also an alumnus of Harvard Business School, having completed the AMP in 2003. He is registered as a Chartered Engineer in the UK, and is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, Fellow of the South European Academy of Engineers, Fellow of the South European Institute of Electrical Engineers, Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Engineers.