Michael Edesess
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Michael Edesess

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MICHAEL EDESESS is an accomplished mathematician and economist with experience in the investment, energy, environment, and sustainable development fields. He is the coauthor of "The 3 Simple Rules of Investing: Why Everything You've Heard about Investing Is Wrong - and What to Do Instead" as well as author of "The Big Investment Lie", both published by Berrett-Koehler. He is currently a visiting fellow in the Centre for System Informatics at City University of Hong Kong, a research associate of the EDHEC-Risk Institute, and a partner in a private investment advisory firm. He writes regularly for Advisor Perspectives and other publications, and has spoken at conferences on investment research and taught courses in international finance, mathematics, statistics, systems analysis, and energy and environmental economics at six universities. His articles have been published in the Wall Street Journal and the Journal of Portfolio Management, and he has been interviewed on a number of radio and TV stations. He was a founding partner in 1995 and chief economist of the Lockwood Financial Group until its sale to The Bank of New York in September 2002. Previously an independent consultant to institutional investors, his clients included several of the largest investment banking and consulting firms. He holds a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in pure mathematics from Northwestern University. In addition to his work in investments, Dr. Edesess is active in the fields of environmental and resource economics and international development. He chaired the board of International Development Enterprises USA, a nonprofit focusing on increasing the wealth of poor rural smallholders in developing countries, and he has chaired the board of Rocky Mountain Institute, a prominent energy think tank in Snowmass, Colorado, and the Rocky Mountain Advisory Board of Environmental Defense. He has written for numerous publications and spoken at conferences on energy, sustainable development, economics, and investment. His articles on these topics have appeared in Technology Review, Rising Tide, the Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News, and Pensions and Investments.
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