Biography

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 9^th edition paperback of the book was published in 2007.

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 Management and William S. Beinecke Professor of Management Studies there from 1981 to 1987.

He is a past appointee to the President’s Council of Economic Advisors. In addition, he currently serves or has served on the boards of several financial corporations including Prudential Financial and the Vanguard Group and nonfinancial corporations such as Genmab and Theravance. He has also served on several investment management boards including 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 The Random Walk Guide to Investing: 10 Rules for Financial Success and Global Bargain Hunting: An Investor’s Guide to Profits in Emerging Markets, with J. P. Mei and From Wall Street to the Great Wall, with others.

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.