Aaron C. Brown (born November 27, 1956) is an American finance practitioner, well known as an author[1] on risk management and gambling-related issues.
[4] In college and graduate school he was a professional poker player[5] and traded securities for his own account.
[6] In 1982, Brown moved to New York and worked as a portfolio manager (Prudential Financial), trader and head of Mortgage Securities (Lepercq, de Neuflize), risk manager (JPMorgan Chase, Rabobank, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and AQR Capital Management) and lectured at Fordham and Yeshiva universities.
[9] He was voted Financial Educator of the Year by the readers of Wilmott Magazine and his website received several Forbes Best of the Web awards for Theory and Practice of Investing.
[3][10] Brown is the author of Financial Risk Management for Dummies,[11] Red-Blooded Risk: The Secret History of Wall Street,[12] The Poker Face of Wall Street [6] and A World of Chance [13] (with Reuven and Gabrielle Brenner).