Bruce Watson

Born and raised in Colorado, Bruce Watson completed undergraduate studies in economics at the University of Denver. He spent six years as a futures analyst and trader, specializing in financial futures. Especially active in trading stock index futures, he gained a practitioner’s perspective on the markets before pursuing graduate work in economics at the University of Colorado and at Harvard.

He taught at Harvard College for many years and was a resident tutor in Harvard’s Lowell House. He is now a lecturer at Boston University (BU) and Harvard Extension School, teaching courses in economics and finance. His work at BU includes a yearly stint teaching math for finance in the university’s master of science in mathematical finance program. But he also keeps his hand in the “real world” of finance by consulting and teaching with a large hedge fund in New York.