Frank J. Fabozzi - Biography

Biography

Professor Fabozzi has authored and edited multiple books and research papers on topics in investment management and financial econometrics. Much of his earlier writing focused on fixed income securities and portfolio management with emphasis on mortgage- and asset-backed securities and structured products. He is a co-developer of the Kalotay–Williams–Fabozzi model of the short rate, used in the valuation of interest rate derivatives.

He is on the Advisory Council for the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University and an affiliated professor at the Institute of Statistics and Economics at the University of Karlsruhe (Germany). He has been the editor of the Journal of Portfolio Management since 1986 and is on the board of directors of the BlackRock complex of closed-end funds. Prior to joining the Yale faculty in 1994, he was a Visiting Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

He is the recipient of various awards. He was elected into the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1969. In 2002, he was inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society's Hall of Fame and is the 2007 recipient of the C. Stewart Sheppard Award given by The CFA Institute. He is the 2004 recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Nova Southeastern University.

He earned a doctorate in economics from the City University of New York in 1972 and a BA (magna cum laude) and an MA in economics from the City College of New York, both in 1970. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.