Dr. Galai, Dan
Dan is the Abe Gray Professor of Finance and
Business Administration at the School of
Business Administration, the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem. He is a visiting Professor at
Stern, NYU.
Dan is also a Principal in Sigma P.C.M. Ltd.,
which is engaged in portfolio management and
corporate finance. In the company he is
responsible for risk management consulting to
Risk Knowledge Network, Inc.
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financial institutions as well as non-bank corporations. He is a co-Founder
of MutualArt Inc., a financial services company, which provides pension-like
benefits to selected artists worldwide.
Dan has also taught at the University of Chicago and at the University of
California, Berkeley. He was a visiting Professor at HEC Lausanne,
Luxembourg School of Finance, INSEAD and UCLA. He has served as a
consultant for the Chicago Board of Options Exchange and the American
Stock Exchange as well as for major banks. He had co-invented the
volatility index based on the prices of traded index options.
Dan was a winner of the First Annual Pomeranze Prize for excellence in
options research presented by the CBOE.
Dan has published numerous articles in leading business and finance
journals, and serves on the Boards of a few academic journals. He is a
co-author of Risk Management, McGraw-Hill (2000) and of The Essentials
of Risk Management, McGraw-Hill (2005).
He is a member of the Blue Ribbon Panel of PRMIA and is the Regional
Director of PRMIA.
Dan holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and undergraduate and
graduate degrees from the Hebrew University.