Douglas T. Breeden
William W. Priest Professor of Finance
The Fuqua School of Business
Duke University
Douglas Breeden is the William W. Priest Professor of Finance at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. Dr. Breeden served as dean of the School from 2001 until July 1, 2007. He has served on faculties at the University of Chicago, Stanford, Duke and North Carolina. He has published well-cited research on consumption and intertemporal asset pricing, as well as on mortgage securities and hedging.
He is the founding editor of the Journal of Fixed Income and was elected to the board of directors of the American Finance Association. He has served as associate editor of Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Economics and Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
Dr. Breeden holds a PhD in finance from Stanford and a BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He serves as a member of MIT Corporation's Visiting Committee for the Sloan School of Management.
He is the chairman emeritus and cofounder of Smith Breeden Associates, a money management firm, as well as chairman and principal owner of Community First Financial Group, a multi-bank holding company, and Old Capital Golf Course. He is active in philanthropic endeavours and in community development in his home area in Southern Indiana.
