Philip Cooper was born and educated in the United Kingdom. He joined Citibank in London before moving to Athens where he worked as a foreign exchange trader for both Citibank and Chase Manhattan. Philip was then posted to Citibank’s Middle East North African Training Centre in Athens/Beirut as the operations manager and a foreign exchange trainer. After returning to the United Kingdom, Philip joined Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) as the head of learning and development and introduced trading simulations as a safe way for new traders to trade. In 1993, he was appointed head of learning and education for UBS in North America, specifically to develop simulations and interactive training programs on the financial markets. He later left the bank and went into partnership with two colleagues to set up a successful financial training company (New Learning Developments) in New York City. At New Learning Developments, he developed relationships with all the major investment and international banks in New York and Chicago, including Goldman, Lehman, JP Morgan, and other major financial institutions such as The Federal Reserve Bank and the World Bank. In 1999, he returned to London where he worked as a training consultant to financial services institutions and the Ministry of Defence. During 2007−2015, he was involved in developing knowledge databases for some of the most prominent online brokerage houses on the Internet. Currently, he is working on his first novel and another financial book on options.