Ashby Monk is the Executive Director of the Stanford Research Initiative on Long-Term Investing. Outside of academia, he is the Head of Research at Addepar and has co-founded several companies that help investors make better investment decisions (e.g., FutureProof, NetPurpose, D.A.T.A., and Long Game Savings). He is the co-author of The Technologized Investor and is a member of the CFA Institute’s Future of Finance Advisory Council. He was named by CIO Magazine as one of the most influential academics in the institutional investing world. He received his Doctorate in Economic Geography at Oxford University and holds a Master’s in International Economics from the Universite de Paris I - Pantheon Sorbonne and a Bachelor’s in Economics from Princeton University.