Kenneth R. French is the Roth Family Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. He is also a director of and consultant to Dimensional Fund Advisors, a money management firm headquartered in Austin, Texas.
French is an expert on the behavior of security prices, investment strategies, and valuation. His recent research focuses on tests of asset pricing models, the trade-off between risk and return in domestic and international financial markets, the cost of capital, and the relation between capital structure and firm value.
French is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; an Advisory Editor of the Journal of Financial Economics,the Journal of Banking and Finance, and the Financial Review; a member of the Advisory Council of the Financial Analyst Journal; a past President of the American Finance Association; a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and on the Board of Directors of the International Rescue Committee and the Valpo Surf Project. He received a BS from Lehigh University (1975) and an MBA (1978), MS (1981) and PhD (1983) from the University of Rochester.