Richard Marston James R.F. Guy Professor of Finance The Wharton School

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Richard C. Marston is the James R.F. Guy Professor of Finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He holds an AB from Yale University (Summa cum Laude), a B Phil from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

His research interests have centered on exchange rate pass-through and exposure, foreign exchange risk management, and international asset pricing. He has been a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1979, a member of several journal editorial boards, a Visiting Professor at London Business School, ESSEC in Paris, the Sasin Institute at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, and Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Japan.

Since 1999, he has been Academic Director of the Private Wealth Management Program at Wharton, a week-long program for ultra high net worth investors. He is a long-standing faculty member in the Certified Investment Management Analyst Program at Wharton, having taught asset allocation to over 5,000 financial advisors. He is a member of the board of W.P. Carey LLC and is an advisor to four family offices. He is also a frequent speaker at investment industry conferences.