James Darrell Duffie (born May 23, 1954) is a Canadian financial economist and is Dean Witter

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of Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is the author of numerous

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s, and several books, including ''Futures Markets'', ''Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory'', and—with Kenneth Singleton—''Credit Risk''. Duffie has been on the finance faculty at Stanford since 1984. He is a Fellow and member of the Council of the

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, a Research Associate of the

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, a member of the Financial Advisory Roundtable of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and a Fellow of The

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. He was the President of The

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for 2009. He has served on the editorial board of many journals, including ''

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''. In 2003, Duffie was awarded the SunGard/IAFE Financial Engineer of the Year Award from the

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. He holds a

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(1984) in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University, a

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(1980) from the

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, and a

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(

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) (1975) from the

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