Jeremy Siegel

Jeremy Siegel is the Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Columbia University in 1967, received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971, and spent one year as a National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University. Prof. Siegel taught for four years at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago before joining the Wharton faculty in 1976.

Prof. Siegel has written and lectured extensively about the economy and financial markets, has appeared on CNN, CNBC, and Wall Street Week, and has been quoted extensively in the financial media. He served for 15 years as head of economics training at JP Morgan and is currently the academic director of the U.S. Securities Industry Institute.

Prof. Siegel is the author of numerous professional articles and two books. His latest, Stocks for the Long Run was named by Business Week magazine as one of the top ten business books published in 1994 and by James Glassman of the Washington Post as one of the ten-best investment books of all time. A second expanded edition of Stocks for the Long Run was published in March 1998.

Prof. Siegel has received many awards and citations for excellence in teaching. In 1994 he received the highest teaching rating in a worldwide ranking of business school professors conducted by Business Week magazine.