David Robinson BAdmin (Hons) (Griffith) David is the Director of the Risk Analytics and Research Group with Ernst Young and has over 20 years experience as an academic, consultant and practitioner in finance.He has previously lectured in finance at the University of Melbourne (where he is still an Honorary Fellow). David has also lectured at a number of other Australian universities such as the University of Queensland, University of Southern Queensland, Bond University, RMIT and the Mt Eliza Business School, and has worked as a consultant to government, financial institutions and industry.His research and teaching interests include financial markets, financial engineering, corporate finance and financial econometrics. His doctoral work-in-progress covers issues of asymmetry, non-linearity, and thresholds in financial markets.