Poitras, Geoffrey 1954-

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POITRAS, Geoffrey 1954-

PERSONAL: Born June 29, 1954, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; naturalized U.S. citizen; married Tara Kenning, July 30, 1980; children: Sarah, Maury, Zoey. Education: Dalhousie University, B.A. (with first class honors), 1977; McMaster University, M.A., 1979; Columbia University, M.Phil., 1981, Ph.D., 1986.

ADDRESSES: Home—946 Rochester Ave., Coquitlam, British Columbia V3K 2W6, Canada. Offıce—Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. E-mail—poitras@ scu.ca.

CAREER: St. John's University, Jamaica, NY, began as lecturer, became assistant professor of economics and finance, 1981-85; Bank of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, securities analyst and government auction manager, 1985-88; Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, assistant professor, 1989-91, associate professor, 1991-98, professor of business administration, 1998—. University of Ottawa, part-time faculty member, 1986-88; University of British Columbia, visiting assistant professor, 1989; National University of Singapore, visiting senior fellow, 1991-92, senior fellow in economics and statistics, 1995-97; Thammasat University, visiting professor, 1995, 2000, 2001; Columbia University, research associate at Center for the Study of Futures Markets; guest speaker at other institutions, including Indian Institute of Management, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management, York University, and University of Manitoba.

MEMBER: Financial Executives Institute (member of board of directors of Vancouver chapter, 2000), Canadian Economics Association, American Economic Association, Econometric Society, American Finance Association, Asia-Pacific Finance Association, Western Finance Association.

AWARDS, HONORS: Canada Council fellow; grants from Government of Canada, 1990, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1990, 1999, 2001; Asia Pacific Scholars Award, 1991-92; Van Dusen Business Research Award, 1993.

WRITINGS:

Derivative Security Analysis, Academia Books (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), 1992, 3rd edition, 1998.

The Early History of Financial Economics, 1478-1776:From Commercial Arithmetic to Life Annuities and Joint Stocks, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 2000.

Risk Management, Speculation, and Derivative Securities, Academic Press (New York, NY), 2002.

Security Analysis and Investment Strategy, Blackwell Publishing, 2003.

Contributor of articles and reviews to academic journals, including Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, PacificBasic Journal of Finance, Managerial and Decision Economics, Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, International Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of Derivatives, International Journal of Accounting, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.