Chicago Booth Alumni Club of Australia and Dimensional Fund Advisors invite you to join David Booth, '71 Founder, Chairman and Co-CEO of DFA for a lunch discussion.
Event Details
The Chicago Booth Alumni Club of Australia and Dimensional Fund Advisors invite you to join David Booth, '71 for lunch and a discussion. Following lunch and networking, David will talk about "Building a Global Business" with a Q&A session to follow.
Limited seating for 30 people, registration required.
Lunch is provided by DFA.
Learn more about alumnus David Booth, '71 and the unprecedented gift he gave to Chicago Booth.
Registration
Register Online
Registration required, limited to 30 places.
Deadline: 2/19/2016
Speaker Profiles
David Booth, '71 (Speaker)
Chairman and Co-CEO, Dimensional Fund Advisors
David Booth, a founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors in 1981, is the firm's Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer.
Currently, David serves on the Investment Company Institute's Board of Governors and is an active member of ICI's Executive Committee. In 2012, he was awarded the Outstanding Financial Executive Award by the Financial Management Association International for his background and accomplishments in applying financial theory and research to the practical world of asset management, particularly for his pioneering work in indexing and small capitalization investing. MutualFundWire ranks him seventh in its list of the 100 Most Influential People in mutual funds, and in 2010, InvestmentNews named David as one of "The Power 20" in the financial services industry.
David has written numerous articles, including "Diversification Returns and Asset Management" with Eugene F. Fama, which won a Graham and Dodd Award of Excellence from the Financial Analysts Journal in 1992.
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business was named in honor of David, where he also serves as a lifetime member of the school's business advisory council. David is a member of the board of trustees of the University of Chicago and the University of Kansas Endowment Association, and he is on the board of directors of Georgetown University. He is also on the board of overseers for the Becker Friedman Institute.
David received his MBA from the University of Chicago in 1971. He also holds an MS and a BA from the University of Kansas.