Background
Campbell was born on May 17, 1958.
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Education
He attended the Dragon School, Oxford, and was a scholar at Winchester College. He graduated with a B.A. (First Class) from Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1979. He went on to complete his M.Phil and Ph.D. (1984) in economics from Yale University.
Career
He is the Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at Harvard University. Early yearsAcademic careerCampbell became an assistant professor at Princeton University in 1984. He remained on the faculty at Princeton until 1994, when he joined Harvard University, where he is currently the Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics.
In May 2006 he was appointed a Harvard College Professor, an honor recognizing particularly distinguished contributions to undergraduate teaching in all its forms. Campbell has received various honors including:Corresponding Fellow, British Academy, 2009President, American Finance Association 2005Fellow, Econometric Society, 1990–present, on the Council 2002–presentHonorary Fellow, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 2008Graham and Dodd Award for Excellence, Financial Analysts Journal, 2005Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing in Lifelong Financial Security with various co-authors 2002. 1999 and 1997Association of American Publishers Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Economics, with Andrew Lo and Craig MacKinlay, 1997Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), 1987–presentHonorary doctorates from Maastricht University and Universite Paris Dauphine, 2009President, International Atlantic Economic Society, 2008-2009His invited lectures include:Richard Ely lecture, Allied Social Sciences Association, San Francisco, 2016Keynote Address, European Financial Management Association, Reading, UK, 2013600th Anniversary Lecture, University of St. Andrews, 2013Keynote Address, Society for Financial Econometrics, University of Oxford, 2012Morgan Stanley Lecture, New Economic School, Moscow, 2012Purvis Lecture, Canadian Economic Association, Calgary, 2012David Kinley Lecture, University of Illinois, 2012Karl Borch Lecture, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Bergen, Norway, 2011Nomura Lecture, University of Oxford, 2010Princeton Lectures in Finance, 2008Geneva Lecture, European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists, 2008William S. Vickrey Distinguished Address, International Atlantic Economic Society, 2006Frank Hahn Lecture, Royal Economic Society, 2002Marshall Lectures, University of Cambridge, 2001Clarendon Lectures, University of Oxford, 1999Campbell is known for his research in financial economics, macroeconomics, and econometrics.
He concentrates on asset pricing, portfolio choice for long-term investors, and household finance. Books authored by Campbell include The Econometrics of Financial Markets (1997), Strategic Asset Allocation: Portfolio Choice for Long-Term Investors (2002), and The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System (2010).
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