Professor Luis Seco is the Director of the Mathematical Finance Program, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto and Director of RiskLlab, a university research laboratory established in 1996, conducting research in quantitative finance, with special focus on asset management.
In October 2007, RiskLab won the NSERC – Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada – Synergy Award for Innovation. The award was delivered by Dr. Colin Carrie, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry, on behalf of the Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry and minister responsible for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and by Dr. Suzanne Fortier, President of NSERC.