Kursi Yayasan Tun Ismail Ali 
Professor Dr. Ben Jacobsen
The Chair in Financial Market at University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom and a member of the New Zealand Institute of Advanced Study (NZIAS) Auckland, New Zealand.
Professor Dr. Ben Jacobsen is the chair holder of the Tun Ismail Mohamad Ali Distinguished Chair in Investment and Finance at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, and the Chair in Financial Markets at University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. He is also a member of the New Zealand Institute of Advanced Study (NZIAS) Aukland, New Zealand.
His researches focuses on forecasting financial markets and behavioral finance. Ben has published over thirty refereed academic journal articles in among others, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Finance, the European Economic Review and the Journal of Banking and Finance. He was among the top 100 business economists (out of over a 100.000) to obtain more than 25.000 downloads on the SSRN. In over five hundred columns and thirty articles he has discussed insights of academic research for professional and private investors. He has written five books on investments and he was a columnist for different Dutch magazines and newspapers. Ben is an associate editor to the Journal of Banking and Finance.
His research is actively used by hedge funds and mutual funds around the world and given its practical relevance his academic work has been discussed in major international magazines and newspapers like the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and the New York Times. His work is also regularly quoted on major websites like Market Watch, Forbes and Barron’s.
Before coming to Scotland he worked at Massey University in New Zealand, the University of Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Netherlands. Ben holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Amsterdam (1997).
Ben has worked as a consultant for a large number of financial institutions and the media. He was one of the co-founders of the company Investment Insight, an advisor to Saemor Capital and currently Ben is a member of the supervisory board of Wilgenhaege.