Franklin Allen

Franklin Allen
Born (1956-03-06) 6 March 1956 (age 68)
Academic career
FieldFinancial economics
Institution
Alma materUniversity of East Anglia (B.A.)
Nuffield College, Oxford (D.Phil)
Doctoral
advisor
James Mirrlees[1]

Franklin Allen, FBA (born 6 March 1956) is a British economist and academic. Since 2014, he has been professor of finance and economics, and executive director of the Brevan Howard Centre at Imperial College London.[2] He was the Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is most active in the research areas of financial innovations, asset price bubbles, the comparison of financial systems, and financial crises.

  1. ^ "Allen's CV" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
  2. ^ "Professor Franklin Allen". Imperial College London. Retrieved 29 July 2017.