Alan J. Marcus is an American economist, and the first recipient of the Mario J. Gabelli Endowed Professorship at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, where he currently teaches.
[2] Marcus serves on the advisory board of the CFA Institute.
[3] Marcus graduated with high honors, summa cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa, from Wesleyan University, in 1976.
He received his PhD in economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981.
[5] Marcus has co-authored textbooks and his work has been published in the area of capital markets and portfolio theory.