Oussama Nasr, founder and Managing Director of DNA Training & Consulting, has worked in executive education since 1997. Focusing primarily on international financial services, he provides consulting and executive education in the areas of derivatives, capital markets, risk management and asset/liability management for a number of major banks, securities firms, and institutional investors around the world.
Previously, Mr. Nasr was a Managing Director in Citigroup’s emerging markets department, with responsibility for asset-backed securities and asset repackaging, then spent a few years in the bank’s global derivatives group where he focused on structured transactions in the equity-, credit-, tax- and sovereign-risk arenas. During that time Mr. Nasr was a member of the ABS management team that won Euromoney’s “Best Bank for Asset-Backed Securities” award for three successive years.
Mr. Nasr began his professional career as a banking and securities attorney with the law firm of Shearman & Sterling, where he represented various commercial and investment banks in their domestic and international fundraising activities. He was involved in the rescheduling of Latin American debt and then in the earliest bond placements by issuers from that region.
Mr. Nasr co-authored the Risk Magazine Supplement “Credit Derivatives Issues and Opportunities” that was distributed by Citigroup with the June 2001 issue. He also authored two Learning Curves in the May 2003 editions of Derivatives Week entitled “Self-Referenced Credit Derivatives”. Mr. Nasr received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in mathematics from Cambridge University and his Juris Doctor degree from Cornell Law School. Mr. Nasr is fluent in Arabic and French in addition to English, and has a basic knowledge of German, Italian and Spanish.
Mr. Nasr lives in Beirut, Lebanon