Dr. Alex Kane is a Professor of finance and economics at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He has been visiting professor at the Graduate School of Business, Harvard; Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo; Kennedy School of Government, Harvard; and research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research.

Dr. Kane is the author of many articles in finance and management journals. His is mainly in portfolio management, corporate finance, and capital markets, most recently in the measurement of market volatility and pricing of options.