Wufnik is an American who lives in London (with Mrs W), and has done so since 1998. He’s a devoted father of two, and a doting grandfather of two. In his current incarnation, he’s head of Credit Research for a small hedge fund–previously he was a Managing Director at a large investment bank, where he was a top ranked analyst. This lets him afford to live in London.
He wonders sometimes how all of this happened–it certainly wasn’t planned. In his spare time he reads science fiction, collects stamps, and listens to medieval and Renaissance music and rock and roll–all necessary attributes to solid bond research. He enjoys choral singing, and has been singing in choral groups for most of the past three decades–primarily Renaissance music, but not exclusively. Before he fell into finance, he taught Linguistics and did a Cognitive Science post-doc at UCSD, but the jobs all dried up in the early 1980s. That’s when he discovered that being unemployed with two kids and no health insurance was no fun and he decided to sell out. He also managed to spend a couple of years in the US Army during that other unnecessary war.
He wonders about things: Why does Britain feel the need to model itself on the United States? Why has Scotland and Northern Ireland produced the best science fiction writers around these days? Why does Obama keep caving in to lunatics? Why does he like English beer so much? Stuff like that.
These days he’s walking around London on weekends on the Capital Ring.
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