BENNO GUENTHER

Benno is an expert in financial risk management, behavioral economics as well as international voluntary carbon markets. He has more than a decade of experience as a trading executive with leading international investment banks such as J.P. Morgan and BNP Paribas. Amongst others he was Vice President and Head of EMEA Power and Gas Structured Products and Options Trading at J.P. Morgan.

Benno is the Founder and Director of Blue Guardian  and advises corporates and supra nationals on carbon markets and behavioral economics. He is also a Visiting Lecturer for financial risk management at the University of Cape Town. Benno holds a PhD from the London School of Economics where he researched risk taking in times of crisis, in particular, the impact of different types of background risk on foreground risk tolerance.

He also holds a masters degree in Mathematical Finance from the University of Konstanz as well as an MSc in Behavioral Science from the London School of Economics