Rick Bookstaber

Rick Bookstaber leads risk research at MSCI. He has held the role of chief risk officer at two of the world’s largest hedge funds, Moore Capital and Bridgewater, at the investment banks Morgan Stanley and Salomon and, most recently, at the pension and endowment of the University of California. During the 2008 global financial crisis Rick served at the U.S. Treasury Department and Securities and Exchange Commission to help reformulate the oversight of the financial system. He is the author of The End of Theory and A Demon of Our Own Design. Rick holds a doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.