Ivo Welch is Distinguished Professor of Finance and holds the J. Fred Weston Chair in Finance at UCLA Anderson. A member of the Anderson faculty from 1989 to 2000, he spent five years at Yale’s School of Management and six years in Brown University’s economics department before rejoining Anderson in 2011. He is co-founder (with Professor Bhagwan Chowdhry) and editor of Finance & Accounting Memos (FAMe), a publication that makes academic research more accessible for MBA and Ph.D. students, journalists, policymakers and other academics.