Dr. Zvi Bodie is the Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management at Boston University (USA). He has published widely on pension finance and investment strategy in leading professional journals. Zvi’s books include Foundations of Pension Finance, Pensions in the U.S. Economy, Issues in Pension Economics, and Financial Aspects of the U.S. Pension System. His textbook, Investments 11e, is the market leader and is used in the certification programs of the CFA Institute and the Society of Actuaries.

He has served on the finance faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School. In 2007 the Retirement Income Industry Association gave Bodie their Lifetime Achievement Award for applied research.

He holds a B.A. with Honors in Philosophy (1965) from Brooklyn College, an M.A. in Economics (1970) from the Hebrew University, and a Ph.D in economics (1975) from the MIT.