First class experience:
The graduate economist has more than 20 years experience, of which 14 years  of econometrics and statistics in the fields of finance und controlling, economic research and teaching. He has acquired special competence in the sectors of regression analysis and time series analysis and has a very good practice in the fields of economic analysis and economic journalism. He is very competent in the applications with several statistics and standard programmes and disposes of an extensive knowledge of the financial markets (Interest rates, Exchange rates, Stock markets), Portfolio Management, technical analysis, Credit Risk Management as well as in micro- and macroeconomics. Dr. Edy Zahnd is a Swiss citizen and can speak and write 3 languages fluently (German, English, French). 

Excellent references:
Dr. Edy Zahnd has had many posts at famous companies and well known universities during his professional life. Some among others were Credit Suisse direction in Zürich and Geneva, the UBS direction in Zürich as well as the Universities of Neuchatel, St-Gallen, Geneva and Basel.

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1984 Licence ès sciences économiques, Section "Political economy"(Master of sciences)

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1985 Licence ès sciences sociales, Section Social work and Personnel Service - University Neuchâtel (Master of arts)

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1992-1994 Diplôme postgrade en statistique (Master in Statistics)

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1996-1998 Education in Portfolio Management at Credit Suisse in Geneva, Portfolios of stocks (December 1996), Indexed portfolios (January 1997), Portfolios of Bonds (January-February 1997), Derivatives (Jan. 1998), Performance (March 1998).

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1998 Beginning of a PhD thesis in econometrics at the University of Basel. Then assistant in econometrics at the university of Freiburg/Fribourg (Switzerland), economist at the Credit Suisse Economic Research in Zürich. Teaching of economic and commercial branches at a professional school and at a private university, assistant in economics at the University of St-Gallen. 1997 Job as  Credit Risk Analyst at the  UBS in Zürich.

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2002 PhD diploma received. PhD thesis: "The application of multivariate GARCH models to turbulent financial markets" (examines the Asian crisis, the volatility transfers between markets, or between a market and the currencies. University of Basel.

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2004 Professor at the private University IFM (Institute Finance and Management), Geneva, (2004).

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2005-now Chief writing editor, Forex-Daily Newsletter, in German, sector "Forex".

2005 Founder Forex and economic research, a company in Neuchâtel and St-Imier, Switzerland.

2006-2007 Tutor, then professor in economics and mathematics and vice-dean of the economic faculty at Formation universitaire à distance, Suisse.

2008-2009 Lecturer (Dozent) in mathematics for business economists and statistics at Fernfachhochschule Schweiz.