Janet Tavakoli is the founder president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, a Chicago-based consulting firm established in 2003.

Ms. Tavakoli posts topical finance updates at her business site: Tavakoli Structured Finance.

She posts blogs related to her novels at her author's web site: Janet Tavakoli.

She is frequently published and quoted in financial journals including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, New York Times, The Economist, Business Week, Forbes and Fortune. Frequent television appearances include CBS's 60 Minutes, CNN, C-Span, CNBC, Fox, CBS Evening News, Bloomberg TV, and BBC.

Ms. Tavakoli earned a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She earned an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. She is a former adjunct associate professor of finance at the Booth School of Business.

Books by Janet Tavakoli

Credit Derivatives (John Wiley & Sons, 1998, 2001, 2022)>

Structured Finance & Collateralized Debt Obligations (John Wiley & Sons, 2003, 2008): an expose of grave flaws in the structure, sales practices, and methodology for rating structured financial products.

Decisions: Life and Death on Wall Street, is Janet Tavakoli’s nonfiction account of Wall Street skullduggery.

Archangels: Rise of the Jesuits, is Janet Tavakoli’s financial fiction (Fi-Fi) mystery thriller debut.

Unveiled Threat: A Personal Experience of Fundamentalist Islam and the Roots of Terrorism is Janet Tavakoli's non-fiction autobiographical account.

Dear Mr. Buffet: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street (John Wiley & Sons 2009): the causes of the greatest credit bubble in the history of the world, how we could have avoided it and how we can prevent it from happening again.

The New Robber Barons (2012): Janet Tavakoli's on-going chronicle of the global financial crisis captured in her articles from the September 2008 meltdown through February 2012.