Southern Finance Association 2003
Distinguished Scholar
Burton G. Malkiel
Dr. Burton G. Malkiel, the Chemical Bank Chairman’s Professor of Economics at Princeton University, is the author of the widely read investment book, A Random Walk Down Wall Street. The revised 8th edition of the book was published in April 2003.Dr. Malkiel has long held professorships in economics at Princeton, where he was also chairman of the Economics Department. He was dean of the Yale School of Organization and William S. Beinecke Professor of Management Studies there.
He is a past appointee to the Council of Economic Advisors. In addition, he is a director of The Vanguard Group of Investment Companies; Prudential Insurance Company of America; BKF Capital Group; and The Jeffrey Company, a private investment firm. He also sits on the Investment Committee for the American Philosophical Association. He is a past president of the American Finance Association and is a member of the American Economic Association.
He is also the author or co-editor of eight other books, the most recent of which are Global Bargain Hunting: An Investor’s Guide to Profits in Emerging Markets, with J. P. Mei and The Index Fund Solution, with R. Evans.
He holds a B.A. and MBA degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. degree from Princeton Universities and began his career in the investment banking department of Smith Barney & Co.