Chris Brooks is Professor of Finance in the ICMA Centre,[1] Henley Business School at the University of Reading, United Kingdom.
His teaching has included statistics, econometrics, asset pricing and portfolio management, corporate finance and the philosophy of research.
[8] He has received research funding from the ESRC[9] and from the Leverhulme Trust, amongst other funders.
[10] Brooks has diverse research interests including asset pricing, fund management, behavioural finance, financial history, and econometric analysis and modelling in finance and real estate.
[12] Brooks is well known as author of the first introductory econometrics textbook targeted at finance students, Introductory Econometrics for Finance (2019, Cambridge University Press), which now is in its fourth edition and has sold over 80,000 copies worldwide since it was first published.