Peter Gratton

Resides In

New Orleans, Louisiana

Education

B.A. State University of New York, Stony Brook, M.A.P.P. State University of New York, Stony Brook, M.A. DePaul University, Ph.D. DePaul University

Expertise

Public Policy, Ethics, Risk Management, Investing

Summary

Internationally recognized researcher and scholar who has lectured and taught in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Europe, and Australia.
Professional editor, researcher, and writer with over two decades of experience in covering IPOs, investments, fintech, education, travel, health, and culture.
Expert in public policy and the links between governance and markets.

Experience

Peter views his work at Investopedia as an extension of his lifelong role as an educator, whether as a professor, consultant, scholar, writer, or editor. He possesses a knack for demystifying complex topics without losing nuance. Peter began his career as a New York-based risk manager. He later joined Multex, Inc. (now part of Reuters), diversifying his writing and editing portfolio to cover investments, ethics, law, public policy, and the health and travel industries for the last 20 years.

A professor in southeastern Louisiana, he is an internationally recognized scholar with a bachelor’s in political science and philosophy. He also holds a master’s in public policy from SUNY Stony Brook and a doctorate from DePaul University. Peter’s research and scholarship are internationally recognized: he has been invited to lecture and give courses in such fields as political economy and ethics across the globe, edited several critical scholarly journals, published ten books, and received prestigious fellowships in the U.K. and Australia.