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 * Kent D. Daniel
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BIO

Kent Daniel is the Jean-Marie Eveillard/First Eagle Investment Management
Professor of Business in the Finance Division at Columbia Business School, where
he served as the Senior Vice Dean of Faculty Affairs from 2019-2022, and Chair
of the Finance Division from 2017-2018. From 1996 to 2006, Kent was at the
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he was the John
and Helen Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Finance (on leave from 2004-2006).
Previously, he served on the faculties of the University of Chicago and the
University of British Columbia.

Between 2004 and 2010, Kent was with the Quantitative Investment Strategies
group at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. He became a managing director and head
of the QIS equity research effort in 2005, and a co-chief investment officer in
2009.

Kent's academic research, both theoretical and empirical, has been primarily in
the areas of behavioral finance and asset pricing. In addition to other awards,
his academic papers received the 1997 and 1999 Smith-Breeden awards for the best
paper in the Journal of Finance. His papers have been reprinted in several
books. He received 2016 Dean's Award for teaching excellence at Columbia
Business School, and the Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award for 1996-1997 and
2000-2001 at the Kellogg School.

Kent is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has
served as an associate editor for the Journal of Finance, as a director of the
American Finance Association, and as a director of the Western Finance
Association. Kent received a B.S. with honors in Physics from the California
Institute of Technology in 1981 and an M.B.A. from UCLA in 1987. He received his
Ph.D. in Finance from UCLA in 1992.


ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2020-Jean-Marie Eveillard/First Eagle Investment Management Professor of
Business, Finance Division, Columbia Business School, Columbia University
2016-2020William Von Meuffling Professor of Business, Finance and Economics
Division, Columbia Business School, Columbia University 2010-2016Professor of
Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School, Columbia University 2001-2007
John L. and Helen Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Finance, Kellogg School,
Northwestern University
    - on leave 2005-2007
1999-2001 Associate Professor, Kellogg-Northwestern. 1996-1999 Assistant
Professor, Kellogg-Northwestern. 1992-1996 Assistant Professor, Graduate School
of Business, University of Chicago 1991-1992 Assistant Professor, University of
British Columbia.


INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

2009-2010Co-Chief Investment Officer and Head of Equity Research, Quantitative
Investment Strategies, Goldman Sachs Asset Management. 2005-2009Managing
Director and Head of Equity Research, QIS-GSAM. 2004-2005Vice-President,
QIS-GSAM.


EDUCATION

1992PhD (Finance), University of California, Los Angeles 1987M.B.A (Finance),
University of California, Los Angeles 1981B.S. (Physics), California Institute
of Technology


ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS

2021Dimenstional Fund Advisors Distinguised Paper Award, Journal of Finance..
2019SummerHaven Investment Management Best Paper Prize, Wharton-Rodney L. White
Center Conference 2017Hillcrest Behavioral Finance Award 2017Finalist, AQR
Insight Award 2016Second Place Winner of the Fama-DFA Prize for the best paper
published in Journal of Financial Economics the areas of capital markets and
asset pricing. 2013Swiss Finance Institute Outstanding Paper Award 2006Smith
Breeden Award Nominee. 1999 Smith Breeden Award for the best paper in the
Journal of Finance. 1997 Smith Breeden Award for the best paper in the Journal
of Finance. 1998 & 2000Best Paper Award for the 1998 NTU International
Conference on Finance. 1997AIAA Award for the Best Paper on Investments at the
WFA Conference