H. Kent Baker is a University Professor of Finance in the Kogod School of Business at American University. He served as the Chair of the Department of Finance and Real Estate for 11 years and headed the Finance Center of Excellence for 8 years. Before joining the faculty at American University, he held both faculty and administrative positions in the business schools at Georgetown University and the University of Maryland, USA. He is the past president of the Southern Finance Association and has served on several boards of directors. He started teaching at the Executive Management Institute in 1976 and has been its Dean since 1981. He has consulting and training experience with more than 100 organizations including the American Bankers Association, AT&T, the Central Intelligence Agency, Comptroller of the Currency, Ernst & Young, Saudi Aramco, the World Bank, and Xerox. He has presented more than 650 training and executive programs in addition to 100 CFA prep programs in the United States, Canada, and Europe. He is the Washington area coordinator of Kaplan Schweser's CFA program. He first started teaching in the Executive Management Institute (EMI) in 1976 and has served as its Dean since 1981. Among his 29 authored or edited books are: (1) Investment Traps Exposed: Navigating Investor Mistakes and Behavioral Biases, (2) Financial Behavior: Players, Services, Products, and Markets, (3) Hedge Funds: Structure, Strategies, and Performance (4) Mutual Funds and Exchange-Traded Funds: Building Blocks to Wealth, (5) Investor Behavior: The Psychology of Financial Planning and Investing, (6) Survey Research in Corporate Finance, (7) Behavioral Finance: Investors, Corporations, and Markets, and (8) Understanding Financial Management: A Practical Guide. His primary publishers are Oxford University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and Emerald Publishing. He has more than 250 publications in such outlets as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Financial Management, Financial Analysts Journal, the Journal of Portfolio Management, and the Harvard Business Review. Several sources rank him among the top 1 percent of the most prolific authors in finance during the past 50 years. He has more than 7,100 citations on Google Scholar. Kent?s research has been presented at more than 170 professional meetings. He currently serves on six editorial boards including Managerial Finance, the Journal of Emerging Markets, and the Journal of Financial Economic Policy. He has appeared in 15 biographies including Who?s Who in Finance and Industry and Outstanding Educators of America. He has received many teaching, research, and service awards including University Scholar/Teacher of the Year at American University. He received a BSBA (Management) from Georgetown University; an MBA (Finance), MEd (Educational Administration), and DBA (Finance) from the University of Maryland; and an MS (Quantitative Methods), MA (Training and Career Development), PhD (Educational Administration and Organizational Development), and PhD (Counseling and Student Development) from American University. He also holds CFA and CMA designations. In his spare time, he is a professional musician who has taught, recorded, and toured.