Gary Smith

Area of Expertise: finance, statistics

Website: www.garysmithn.com

Twitter Feed: twitter.com/standarddevs

Books: "Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie With Statistics" (Overlook Press, 2014); "What the Luck? The Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives" (Overlook Press, 2016) and "Money Machine: The Surprisingly Simple Power of Value Investing" (AMACOM Books, 2017)

Topics Presented in Speeches: "Bubble, Bubble, Where's the Bubble;" "The Most Fundamental Source of Error in Human Judgment;" "Value Investing in Real Estate;" "Bug Data, Big Computers, Big Trouble" and "The 1%: Luck Run Amok"

Email: garynsmith47@gmail.com

Biography:

Gary Smith is the Fletcher Jones Professor of economics at Pomona College. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University and was an assistant professor there for seven years. He has won two teaching awards and written (or co-authored) 80 academic papers and 12 books. His research has been featured by Bloomberg Radio Network, CNBC, The Brian Lehrer Show, Forbes, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Motley Fool, Newsweek, and BusinessWeek.