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Luis M. Viceira is the Jay O. Light Professor of Business Adminitration in the Finance Unit and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research, course development, and teaching focus on the areas of investment management and capital markets. A member of the faculty of the Harvard Business School since 1998, Professor Viceira has taught an array of Finance courses in the MBA program, Executive Education programs, and the Business Economics Ph.D. program, and has served in several leadership positions, including Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education and HBS Online. He is currently the instructor for the Investment Management for Professional and Personal Investors course in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program, co-chair of the HBS Investment Management Program for leaders of asset management firms, and co-chair of the Asset Management Conference for HBS Alums. He also serves as co-chair of the NBER-NBIM Conference on New Developments in Long-Term Asset Management.

Prof. Viceira has developed extensive research and case writing on long-term asset allocation, asset pricing, fixed income markets, household finance, international finance, the management and organization of large institutional investors, and innovation and disruption in the money management industry. Professor Viceira is the author of multiple journal articles published in leading academic and practitioner-oriented finance journals, book chapters, Harvard Business School case studies, and the book Strategic Asset Allocation (with John Y. Campbell). His research has received several awards recognizing its contributions to the theory and practice of asset management, including the 2002 TIAA-CREF Paul Samuelson Award, the 2005 Graham and Dodd Award by the CFA Institute, the 2004 Prize for Financial Innovation of the Q-Group, Inquire Europe, and Inquire U.K., and more recently the 2014 Arthur Warga Award by the The Society for Financial Studies. He is also the author of numerous case studies focused on the asset management and investing.

Professor Viceira holds a bachelor degree from the Universidad Autonoma in Madrid, where he was class valedictorian and was awarded the University and the National Ministry of Education Graduation Prizes, and a M.A. degree and a Ph.D. degree in Economics from Harvard University. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a fellow of the TIAA-CREF Institute in New York.

Professor Viceira Professor Viceira has served in the past and is also currently serving as director, advisor, and external consultant to asset management firms, pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, U.S. capital markets regulators, and not-for-profit organizations. These include serving as a Trustee of Vanguard Charitable, as a member of the Asset Allocation Advisory Board at NBIM, the manager of the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Norway, as a Public Governor of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), as a Trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation, as the Harvard University Trustee of the Charles E. Cotting Trust, and as a Trustee at Milton Academy among others.