Keith Black is an award-winning author and course designer specializing in making complex topics accessible to audiences of varying sophistication. He currently serves as the managing director of education for RIA Channel, where he designed and cotaught the Nasdaq Advisor Academy course on cryptocurrencies and digital assets. In his previous role as managing director of content strategy at the CAIA Association, he was a coauthor of the second, third, and fourth editions of the level I and II CAIA curriculum on alternative investments. Dr. Black has also advised foundations, endowments, and pension funds on their asset allocation and manager selection strategies in hedge funds, commodities, and managed futures. Prior experience includes commodities derivatives trading, stock options research and Cboe floor trading, and building quantitative stock selection models for mutual funds and hedge funds. Dr. Black previously served on the faculty of the Illinois Institute of Technology and currently teaches courses on investment consulting and investing in cryptocurrencies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has published sixteen refereed journal articles and contributed to 8 books. Dr. Black was named to the Institutional Investor magazine's list of "Rising Stars of Hedge Funds." Dr. Black earned a BA from Whittier College, an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, and a PhD from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and the Certified Digital Asset Advisor (CDAA) designations and was a member of the inaugural class of both CAIA and FDP Charterholders.
