Richard Peterson, PHD

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

MarketPsych

Dr. Peterson is Chair of MarketPsych, a firm advancing AI-based analytics of media, corporate documents, and unstructured text. MarketPsych's products are used by many of the world's largest banks, funds, and governments in 25+ countries for alpha-generation, ESG assessment, research, and risk management. 100+ academic papers have been published using MarketPsych's data products.

In the educational field Dr. Peterson developed popular financial personality tests, published widely in academic journals and textbooks, and is an associate editor of the Journal of Behavioral Finance. His award-winning books include "Inside the Investor's Brain" (Wiley, 2007) and "MarketPsych" (Wiley, 2010) (with Frank Murtha, PhD) and "Trading on Sentiment: The Power of Minds over Markets" (Wiley, 2016).

Dr. Peterson received cum laude Electrical Engineering (B.S.), Liberal Arts (B.A.), and Doctor of Medicine degrees (M.D.) from the University of Texas. He performed postdoctoral neuroeconomics research at Stanford University and is Board-certified in Psychiatry. He lives in California with his family.

Specialties: behavioral economics, sustainability, social mood analytics, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing.