Douglas T. Breeden : Isenberg School of Management : UMass Amherst

William W. Priest Professor of Finance and former Dean of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, Duke University Douglas T. Breeden is the William W. Priest Professor of Finance and former Dean

William W. Priest Professor of Finance and former Dean of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

Douglas T. Breeden is the William W. Priest Professor of Finance and former Dean of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. He also served on faculties at Chicago Booth, Stanford and North Carolina, where he was the Dalton McMichael Professor of Finance. He was the Fischer Black Visiting Professor of Financial Economics at MIT’s Sloan School from 2011 to 2013. Breeden published seminal research on insurance prices implicit in option prices, the Consumption CAPM, and hedging mortgage securities. Breeden was Associate Editor of 5 top journals and Founding Editor of the Journal of Fixed Income. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Finance Association and in 2010 elected a lifetime Fellow. The International Association for Quantitative Finance named Breeden “Financial Engineer of the Year 2013” for being an “industry pioneer.” Breeden holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Stanford and an S.B. from M.I.T. He served on the MIT President’s Council, the Sloan School Visiting Committee and the Stanford Business School Advisory Council. Breeden is a Senior Research Consultant for Amundi Smith Breeden, a money management firm that he co-founded, and is on the Board of Trustees of Commonfund.