Awards & Recognition
★Fellow of the American Finance Association (2000)
★Fellow of the American Philosophical Society (2001)
★EFM 2003 Best Paper Award from European Financial Management
★Lifetime achievement awards from professional investment organizations
★Harvard Business School alumni achievement award (1984)
Notable Facts
→Chemical Bank Chairman's Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University
→Author of investment classic 'A Random Walk Down Wall Street' (first published 1973, now in 13th edition with over 1.5 million copies sold)
→Served on President's Council of Economic Advisers (1975-1977)
→Dean of Yale School of Management (1981-1988)
→President of American Finance Association (1978)
→28-year director of Vanguard Group
→Chief Investment Officer at Wealthfront
→Two-time chairman of Princeton Economics Department
→Pioneer of index fund investing - recommended index funds before they existed
→Has published 17 books and over 150 articles
→Served on boards of major corporations including Prudential Financial and American Stock Exchange