Professor Zvi Bodie
Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management, Boston University
Visit time: December 2009
Zvi Bodie is the Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management at Boston University. He holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has served on the finance faculty at the Harvard Business School and MIT's Sloan School of Management.
Professor Bodie is a world-renowned and widely published scholar on pension finance, personal finance, investment management, risk management and investment strategy. His papers on these topics have appeared in numerous top-flight journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Investment Management, Journal of Portfolio Management, Financial Analysts Journal, and Harvard Business Review. His books include The Future of Life Cycle Saving and Investing and Foundations of Pension Finance. His textbook, Investments, coauthored with Alex Kane and Alan Marcus is the market leader in graduate and undergraduate programs at business schools globally, as well as used in the certification programs of the CFA Institute and the Society of Actuaries. His textbook Financial Economics is coauthored with Nobel Prize winning economist, Robert C. Merton. His latest book is Worry Free Investing: A Safe Approach to Achieving Your Lifetime Financial Goals. In 2007 the Retirement Income Industry Association gave him their Lifetime Achievement in Applied Retirement Research Award. Professor Bodie is also a two-time winner of the Financial Analysts Journal’s Graham and Dodd Scroll Award (1985, 1996).
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Professor Robert A. Jarrow
Ronald P. and Susan E. Lynch Professor of Investment Management
Professor of Finance and Economics, Cornell University
Visit time: May 2010
Professor Jarrow's teaching and research interests involve the study of mathematical finance. He is interested in derivatives, risk management, investments and asset pricing theory. Jarrow is currently engaged in research relating to the pricing of credit derivatives, liquidity risk, and risk management. He is a graduate faculty representative in four fields: management, economics, operations research and industrial engineering, and applied mathematics.
Professor Jarrow is the managing editor of Mathematical Finance and an associate editor for numerous other finance journals. His research has won numerous awards including the Graham and Dodd Scrolls Award 2001 and the CBOE Pomerance Prize in 1982. In 1997, he was named IAFE Financial Engineer of the Year in recognition of his research accomplishments. He is currently an IAFE senior fellow and an FDIC senior fellow. He is in the Fixed Income Analysts Society Hall of Fame, Risk Magazine's 50 member Hall of Fame, and listed in the Who's Who of Economics. He also serves on various corporate board of directors and advisory boards.
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Professor Marti G. Subrahmanyam
Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance, New York University
Visit time: July 2010
Professor Marti G. Subrahmanyam is the Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance and Economics in the Stern School of Business at New York University. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, a post-graduate diploma in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a doctorate in Finance and Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Professor Subrahmanyam has published numerous articles and books in the area of corporate finance, capital markets and international finance. He has been a visiting professor at leading academic institutions in Australia, England, France, Universita Guido Carli LUISS, Rome, Italy, Singapore Management University and Churchill College, Cambridge University.
He has served as a consultant for several corporations, industrial groups and financial institutions in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America. He also sits on the boards of several companies including the ICICI Bank Ltd (NYSE:IBN), Infosys Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:INFY), Metahelix Life Sciences (P) Ltd, Nomura Asset Management Inc, and the board of advisers of Apollo Management L.P. He serves as an advisor to international and government organizations including the Securities and Exchange Board of India. He has taught extensively on executive programs in more than twenty countries around the world.
Professor Subrahmanyam currently serves or has served as an Associate Editor of the European Financial Management, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business and Accounting, Journal of Finance, Management Science, Journal of Derivatives, Journal of International Finance and Accounting, and Japan and the World Economy. He is the Editor of an academic journal specializing in derivative securities and markets entitled Review of Derivatives Research. His research interests include valuation of corporate securities, options and futures markets, equilibrium models of asset pricing, market microstructure and the term structure of interest rates. He has published several papers in these areas in many of the leading international journals in economics and finance, including Econometrica, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and The Review of Financial Studies. His recent books include Recent Advances in Corporate Finance (Irwin, 1985) and Financial Options: From Theory to Practice (Dow Jones-Irwin, 1992). He is currently working on a new book, Interest Rate Derivative Products.
Professor Subrahmanyam has won several teaching awards including, most recently, New York University's Distinguished Teaching Medal in 2003.