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Megan Czasonis is Managing Director and Head of Portfolio Management Research at State Street Associates. Her team collaborates with academic partners to develop new research on asset allocation, risk management, and quantitative investment strategy. Megan has co-authored numerous journal articles and works closely with institutional investors to develop customized solutions based on this research. Megan graduated summa cum laude from Bentley University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Finance. 

Mark Kritzman is a Founding Partner and CEO of Windham Capital Management, LLC and the Chairman of Windham's investment committee. He is also a Founding Partner of State Street Associates, and he teaches a graduate finance course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Protego Trust Company, the Advisory Board of the MIT Sloan Finance Group, the Board of Governors of St. John's University, and serves on the editorial boards of numerous finance and investment journals. He has written more than 100 articles for peer-reviewed journals and is the author of seven books in addition to Prediction Revisited. Mark won Graham and Dodd Scroll Awards in 1993, 2002, and 2010, the Research Prize from the Institute for Quantitative Investment Research in 1997, the Bernstein-Fabozzi/Jacobs-Levy Award ten times, the Roger F. Murray Prize from the Q-Group in 2012, the 2022 and 2023 Harry Markowitz awards for best paper in the Journal of Investment Management, and the Peter L. Berinstein Award in 2013 for Best Paper in an Institutional Investor Journal. In 2004, Mark was elected a Batten Fellow at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia. Mark Holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from St. John's University, and a Master of Business Administration with distinction from New York University.  

David Turkington is Senior Managing Director and Head of State Street Associates, State Street Global Markets' decades-long partnership with renowned academics that produces innovative research on markets and investment strategy. David is a frequent presenter at industry conferences, has published more than 40 research articles in a range of journals, and currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Alternative Investments. In addition to Prediction Revisited, he is also a co-author of Asset Allocation: From Theory to Practice and Beyond. His published research has received the the 2010 Graham and Dodd Scroll Award, five Bernstein-Fabozzi/Jacobs-Levy Outstanding Article Awards, the 2013 Peter L. Bernstein Award for Best Paper in an Institutional Investor journal, the 2021 and 2023 Roger F. Murray First Prize for outstanding presentation at the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (Q Group) seminars, and the 2022 and 2023 Harry Markowitz awards for best paper in the Journal of Investment Management. David graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University with a BA in mathematics and quantitative economics. 

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