Professor Russell Napier is author of The Solid Ground investment report and co-founder of
the investment research portal ERIC- [www.eri-c.com](http://www.eri-c.com)
He has worked in the investment business for twenty-six years and has been writing global
macro strategy for institutional investors since 1995. Russell is author of Anatomy of The
Bear: Lessons From Wall Street’s Four Great Bottoms and founder and course director of
the Practical History of Financial Markets at The University of Edinburgh.
Russell is on the board of two listed investment trusts, a member of the Investment
advisory committees of three fund management companies and an advisor to a family
office. In 2014 he founded the Library of Mistakes a business and financial history library in
Edinburgh.
Russell has degrees in law from Queen’s University Belfast and Magdalene College
Cambridge is a Fellow of The CFA Society of the UK and is an Honorary Professor at both
Heriot-Watt University and The University of Stirling.
