Ivo Welch is a German-born economist and finance academic, the J. Fred Weston Professor of Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management. His research, widely cited, has focused on financial economics and informational cascades. In addition to more than 50 journal articles, his works include a Corporate Finance textbook, (latterly self-published) as well as items in the popular press. Welch is an National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Research Associate, and has been editor of the Critical Finance Review since inception. He is a two-time recipient of the Michael Brennan Award, and a Humboldt Foundation 2015 fellow. He was previously on the faculties of the Yale School of Management (Professor of Economics and Finance) and Brown University's economics department (Professor of Financial Economics). Welch completed his BA in computer science in 1985 at Columbia University, and both his MBA and PhD in finance at the University of Chicago.