Greg Hawkins

'''Gregory Dale Hawkins''' was a trader and principal in the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management that after four spectacularly successful years lost most of its clients' money in 1998 when the Russian government defaulted on its debt payments on August 17, 1998, triggering a devaluation of the Russian ruble. Long-Term Capital had $4.6 billion in portfolio losses in a few months and only avoided outright bankruptcy because the U.S. central bank prompted a consortium of large global investment banks and counter-parties of LTCM to provide an equity bailout. LTCM shutdown in early 2000.

Hawkins lives in New Rochelle in Westchester County, New York.<ref>{{cite web|title=Virtual Globetrotting|date=5 January 2012 |url=http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/greg-hawkins-house/}}</ref>

==Early life== Hawkins earned an S.B. in economics from MIT in 1976 and a Ph.D. in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1982. [http://alum.mit.edu]

==Career== On 27 February 2008, Hawkins was put in control of Risk Oversight of Real Estate and Mortgage Exposure for Citibank.<ref>[http://www.citigroup.com/citigroup/press/2008/080227f.htm www.citigroup.com]</ref>{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}}

==References== {{Reflist}} * {{cite book |title=When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management |last= Lowenstein |first= Roger |year = 2000 |location = |isbn=0-375-50317-X |publisher=Random House}}

* [http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/ltcm.htm San Jose State University Economics Department page on LTCM]

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