Richard A. Brealey

__NOTOC__ Richard A. Brealey is a British economist and author. He is an emeritus professor at the London Business School and a Fellow of the British Academy. He co-authored ''Principles of Corporate Finance'' with Stewart C. Myers and Franklin Allen (now in its thirteenth edition).

He was a full-time faculty member of the London Business School from 1968 to 1998. He has held the posts of Director of the American Finance Association and president of the European Finance Association. He is a member of the editorial boards of the ''Journal of Applied Corporate Finance'', ''Journal of Empirical Finance'', and ''European Finance Review''.

Professor Brealey is a director of the Swiss Helvetia Fund and a former director of HSBC Investor Funds, Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada UK Holdings plc, and Tokai Derivative Products Ltd. He was formerly a special adviser to the Governor of the Bank of England.

He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, with an M.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Provided by Wikipedia