Bruno Solnik
Bruno Solnik was a professor of finance at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong. He was academic director of the HKUST-NYU Master in Global Finance. He is also distinguished emeritus professor of finance at HEC Paris. Early life and education. Solnik earned an engineering degree from École Polytechnique in Paris in 1968. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, completing a Ph.D. in finance in 1972. IN 1986 he was presented with a state doctorate in management from the Université de Paris Dauphine. Career. In 1969 Solnik was hired as a lecturer in  economics at the University of Paris. In 1972 he moved to Stanford University as an assistant professor of finance. In 1974 he joined the HEC Paris, first as an associate professor, then a professor of finance, and later a distinguished emeritus professor. Solnik became a visiting professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2006 to 2009, and later was appointed as a professor and academic director of the Master of Science in Global Finance program at that university. He has also held visiting positions at University of Tokyo (Todai), University of New South Wales, University of Geneva , UCLA and University of California Berkeley. Solnik researches trends in global finance, and has made a particular study of international diversificstion of investment. Solnik is the founding president of the European Finance Association and director of the American Finance Association. Solnik has written seven books, five in France and two in the USA, including "Global Investments", a textbook in the field formerly titled "International Investments", and translated into Japanese and Chinese. The sixth edition of "Global Investments", coauthored by Dennis McLeavey of the CFA Institute, has been used for all three levels of the CFA examination. He has published some  fifty articles in leading finance and economics journals such as the "Journal of Finance", the "Financial Analysts Journal", "Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis", "Journal of Economic Theory", "Journal of International Money and Finance", etc. He also serves on the board of editors of several major Finance journals in America, Europe and Asia. Solnik has served on the Council for Education and Research of the CFA Institute and on its Research Foundation. Awards include two Graham & Dodd Awards for Excellence by the "Financial Analysts Journal", the "Finance Award of the Year" at the 1998 Interlaken Finance Symposium, and the Nicholas  Molodovsky Award, presented by the CFA Institute in 1999. He is a Knight in the Order of the Legion of Honor.