Dr. Lakonishok was, until 2004, the William G. Karnes Professor of Finance at the College of Commerce & Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before that, he held staff and visiting professorships at Tel Aviv University, Cornell University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of British Columbia.

Dr. Lakonishok is a top contributor to major financial journals and has published more than 80 articles. His research covers such diverse areas as analyst forecasts, execution cost measurement, performance evaluation, momentum strategies, fundamental valuation, seasonalities in stock returns, and share repurchases.

Dr. Lakonishok’s work has received many awards including the Roger F. Murray Award for the paper “Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation, and Risk,” written with Drs. Shleifer and Vishny, and the American Association of Individual Investors Award for the article “Fundamentals and Stock Returns in Japan,” written with Drs. Louis K. C. Chan and Yasushi Hamao.

Dr. Lakonishok received a BA in economics and statistics from Tel Aviv University in 1970 and an MBA from that university in 1972. He earned an M.S. in Business Administration in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Business Administration in 1976 from Cornell University.