Francis A. Longstaff (born August 3, 1956)[1] is an American educator and pioneer in quantitative finance.
[3] He has published over 50 research and practitioner articles,[4][5] and is a recipient of the Michael Brennan Award.
Longstaff was head of Fixed Income Derivative Research at Salomon Brothers from 1995 to 1998, and worked in the research department of the Chicago Board of Trade and for Deloitte and Touche as a management consultant.
[6] Longstaff earned his Ph.D. in finance from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, in 1987.
He is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.