Kenneth R. French is the Roth Family Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. French is an expert on the behavior of security prices and investment strategies. He and his frequent co-author Eugene F. Fama have written many notable papers, including “The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns”, “Common Risk Factors in the Returns on Stocks and Bonds”, and “A Five-Factor Asset Pricing Model.”
French is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Advisory Editor of the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Banking and Finance, and the Financial Review, a member of the Editorial Board of the Critical Finance Review, a former Associate Editor of the Journal of Finance and the Review of Financial Studies, and a former President of the American Finance Association. Professor French is also a Fellow of the American Finance Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Chair of the Valpo Surf Project’s Global Board of Directors, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Cato Institute, Grassroot Soccer, and the International Rescue Committee.
Professor French is a consultant to Dimensional Fund Advisors and a member of the firm’s board of directors.
Before joining Dartmouth, Professor French was on the faculty of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, the Yale School of Management, and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Professor French received his PhD in finance from the University of Rochester in 1983. He also earned an MS and an MBA from the University of Rochester and a BS from Lehigh University.
French is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Advisory Editor of the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Banking and Finance, and the Financial Review, a member of the Editorial Board of the Critical Finance Review, a former Associate Editor of the Journal of Finance and the Review of Financial Studies, and a former President of the American Finance Association. Professor French is also a Fellow of the American Finance Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Chair of the Valpo Surf Project’s Global Board of Directors, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Cato Institute, Grassroot Soccer, and the International Rescue Committee.
Professor French is a consultant to Dimensional Fund Advisors and a member of the firm’s board of directors.
Before joining Dartmouth, Professor French was on the faculty of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, the Yale School of Management, and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Professor French received his PhD in finance from the University of Rochester in 1983. He also earned an MS and an MBA from the University of Rochester and a BS from Lehigh University.
