K. Geert Rouwenhorst is a Professor at Yale School of Management

Yale School of Management

The Yale School of Management is the graduate business school of Yale University and is located on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The School offers Master of Business Administration and Ph.D. degree programs. As of January 2011, 454 students were enrolled in its MBA...

 and Deputy Director for International Financial Center at Yale. He is also a partner at SummerHaven Investment management. His work has traced the history of mutual funds through 18th century Netherlands. The International Financial Center at Yale also holds the oldest non-defaulted bond in the world.

His recent work with Gary B. Gorton

Gary Gorton

Gary B. Gorton is an American economist who currently serves as professor at Yale School of Management. He is a central figure in the study of the global financial crisis of 2008–2009.-Life and career:...

 has been influential in establishing the idea of commodities as an asset class and has fueled the rise of commodity indices and exchange traded funds. He has studied the relative performance of futures and the underlying commodities.

Degrees

• Ph.D. University of Rochester
  University of Rochester
  The University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The...
  
  , 1991
• MS University of Rochester, 1988
• BLaw Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1986
• MS Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1985