Francis A. Longstaff

Independent Director and Allstate Professor of Insurance and Finance at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management

Francis A. Longstaff is an independent director on the Boards for Dimensional’s US mutual funds and exchange-traded funds. He is Allstate Professor of Insurance and Finance at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Professor Longstaff served as head of fixed income derivative research at Salomon Brothers in New York and worked in the research department of the Chicago Board of Trade. He focuses on fixed income markets and term structure theory, derivative markets and valuation theory, credit risk, computational finance, liquidity, and the role of arbitrage in financial markets. He has published nearly 70 articles in academic and practitioner journals and is a frequent speaker at conferences. Professor Longstaff has consulted for mutual funds, hedge funds, commercial banks, and other financial institutions; software developers; and risk management firms. Professor Longstaff holds a PhD in finance from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the University of Utah. He is a certified public accountant (CPA) and chartered financial analyst (CFA®).