Myron Scholes

Myron Scholes
Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences

Myron Scholes is the Chairman of the Board of Economic Advisors of Stamos Capital Management. He is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 1995, Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences, and co-originator of the Black-Scholes options pricing model. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1997 for his new method of determining the value of derivatives. He currently is an outside director for Dimensional Fund Advisors Mutual Funds, a member of the Board of Managers of Cutwater Asset Management, and an outside director for American Century Mutual Funds (Mountain View). He was Chairman of Platinum Grove Asset Management from 1999 to 2009, a Principal and Limited Partner at Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. from 1994 to 1998, and a Managing Director at Salomon Brothers from 1991 to 1993. Other positions Myron has held include the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business from 1981 to 1995, the Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Finance and Director of the Center for Research in Security Prices at the University of Chicago, Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Professor of Finance at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.