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Laurence B. Siegel is the Gary P. Brinson Director of Research at CFA Institute Research Foundation. He has been active with the Research Foundation since 2000 and has been contributing to CFA Institute publications since 1984. He has written, coauthored, or edited six CFA Institute Research Foundation monographs, one literature review, and several briefs. He is a four-time winner of the Graham and Dodd Award for excellence in research in the Financial Analysts Journal, and until recently, he was a member of the editorial board for the Financial Analysts Journal.

Laurence B. Siegel retired in 2009 from The Ford Foundation, where he served as director of research in the Investment Division. Previously, he was a managing director at Ibbotson Associates. He has also been a member of the board of directors of Ibbotson Associates, Oberweis Emerging Growth Fund, and the Dow Jones Hedge Fund Index committee.

Siegel is the author of Fewer, Richer, Greener: Prospects for Humanity in an Age of Abundance (Wiley 2019) and Unknown Knowns: On Economics, Investing, Progress, and Folly (Montesquieu Press 2021). He is currently a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Portfolio Management and the Journal of Investing. He serves on the board of directors of the Q Group (Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance) and the American Business History Center.