Kenneth R. French

Kenneth R. French is the Roth Family Distinguished Professor of Finance at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, after earlier posts at MIT, Yale and the University of Chicago. With Eugene Fama he developed the three-factor model, showing that company size and value help explain stock returns beyond market risk. He served as president of the American Finance Association, is a board member and head of investment policy at Dimensional Fund Advisors, and maintains a widely used library of factor and portfolio return data.