Jan Simon is a Senior Lecturer at Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University and has been an Assistant Professor at IESE Business School. In 2008 Jan held a Visiting Scholarship at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jan previously worked in investment banking. He was an Executive Director for Goldman Sachs, heading the pan-European continental sales trading desk. Prior to that, he was Vice-President and co-head of Salomon Brother's emerging markets trading desk. He also served as a Director of Merrill Lynch's hedge funds advisors group. Jan earned his LLB and LLM from the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven, Belgium and his MBA from IESE Business School. He holds a postgraduate degree in investment advice from EHSAL, Belgium, and has a Ph.D. (Finance) from the University of Essex, U.K. His research covers networks in the investment world and their influence on systemic risk.