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Jack Rader
Director, FMA

As Executive Director of the Financial Management Association International (FMA), Jack is the chief executive officer of the largest academic finance organization in the world.  Internationally recognized for its work in facilitating the transfer of ideas and information between university professors and business executives, FMA encourages action-oriented research and underwrites a variety of programs that enhance the study and practice of finance.  FMA hosts Annual Research Conferences in the US and Europe that feature a variety of presentations of contemporary research, panel discussions involving leading practitioners and academics, and tutorials.

Jack has published numerous articles and is co-author of Managing Pension Plans:  A Comprehensive Guide to Improving Plan Performance (Harvard Business School Press, 1998—winner of the Clarence Arthur Kulp/Elizur Wright Memorial Award, 2000) and Managing Pension and Retirement Plans: A Guide for Employers, Administrators, and Other Fiduciaries (Oxford University Press, 2004 - with Gus Baker and Dennis Logue).

Jack has degrees from USF (MBA, Finance, 1981) and the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (BS, Management Science, 1972).  Jack was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation by the Association for Investment Management Research and the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts in 1991.