Dr. René M. Stulz is the Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics and the Director of the Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics at the Ohio State University. He has consulted for major corporations, law firms, the New York Stock Exchange, the IMF, and the World Bank. Dr. Stulz is a director of several companies, the president of the Gamma Foundation, and has been Chairman of the Global Association of Risk Professional's FRM® Committee since 2003 playing a leading role in developing the FRM program as the world's benchmark program for financial risk managers. He served twelve years as editor of the Journal of Finance, the leading academic publication in the field, and has published more than sixty papers in finance and economics. In 2004, the magazine Treasury and Risk Management named him one of the 100 most influential people in finance.

Dr. Stulz received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was awarded a Marvin Bower Fellowship from the Harvard Business School, a Doctorat Honoris Causa from the University of Neuchâtel, and the 1999 Eastern Finance Association Distinguished Scholar Award.

A complete biography of Dr. René M. Stulz is available at: www.cob.ohio-state.edu/fin/faculty/stulz/