John Carrington Cox

John Carrington Cox is the Nomura Professor of Finance Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is one of the world's leading experts on options theory and one of the inventors of the Cox–Ross–Rubinstein model for option pricing, as well as of the Cox–Ingersoll–Ross model for interest rate dynamics. He was named Financial Engineer of the Year by the International Association of Financial Engineers^[1] in 1998.

John Carrington Cox
Born	1943 (age 81–82)
Nationality	American
Academic work
Discipline	Financial economics
School or tradition	Neoclassical economics
Notable ideas	Binomial options pricing model Cox–Ingersoll–Ross model