Frank J. Fabozzi is Professor in the Practice of Finance and Becton Fellow in the School of Management at Yale University. Prior to joining the Yale faculty, he was a Visiting Professor of Finance in the Sloan School at MIT. Professor Fabozzi is a Fellow of the International Center for Finance at Yale University and on the Advisory Council for the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. He is an affiliated professor at the Institute of Statistics, Econometrics and Mathematical Finance at the University of Karlsruhe (Germany). He is the editor of the Journal of Portfolio Management and an associate editor of the Journal of Fixed Income and the Journal of Structured Finance. He earned a doctorate in economics from the City University of New York in 1972. In 2002, Professor Fabozzi was inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society’s Hall of Fame and is the 2007 recipient of the C. Stewart Sheppard Award given by the CFA Institute. He earned the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Public Accountant. He has authored and edited numerous books about finance.

Vinod Kothari, chartered accountant and chartered secretary, is an established author, trainer, and consultant on asset-based financing, structured finance, and structured credit. Mr. Kothari has been a rank holder throughout his academic career and was awarded the Outstanding Young Person Award in the field of Finance and Taxation by a voluntary organization. He wrote his first book at the age of 23; he has authored books on leasing, securitization, credit derivatives, and security interests. Mr. Kothari is a visiting faculty at Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, where he teaches structured finance, and a visiting faculty at National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, where he teaches corporate insolvency.