Peter M. DeMarzo is an American economist. On August 1, 2024, he became the interim Dean of the

Stanford Graduate School of Business The Stanford Graduate School of Business is the Postgraduate education, graduate business school of Stanford University, a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California. For several years it has been the most selective ...

when Jonathan Levin left the Dean's position to become President of

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. He was educated at the

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. Upon graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1984, DeMarzo pursued graduate study at

, finishing his master's degree and doctorate in 1984 and 1989, respectively. DeMarzo began teaching at the Kellogg School of Management in 1989, and remained on the faculty at

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through 1997. Between 1995 and 1997, he was a visiting assistant professor at Stanford, after which he secured an associate professorship at the Haas School of Business of the

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. He returned to Stanford in 2000, and was later appointed to the

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Professorship of Finance, followed by the Staehelin Family Professorship of Finance. DeMarzo was appointed president of the American Finance Association for the 2019 term.

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