Meet a member of TIME’s “100 most influent people in the world”

Andrew W. Lo received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University back in 1980 and from there on nothing have stopped him.

His career and biography are now spanning wide. Today, he occupies a position as the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has also published numerous articles in finance and economic journals. In addition, he has authored several books including highly sold and awarded, ‘Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought’ which is essential reading for anyone who wants to know how markets really work.

He has received several awards including, the Guggenheim Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Paul A. Samuelson Award, the American Association for Individual Investors Award, the Graham, and Dodd Award teaching excellence at MIT.

Lo’s current research spans several areas including evolutionary models of investor behaviour and adaptive markets and recent projects include deriving risk aversion, loss aversion, and other behaviours as emergent properties of evolution in stochastic environments.

Andrew Lo is influencing world’s leaders and decision-makers with his ground-breaking research.