Robert S Rosefsky

Dr. Robert Rosefsky's credentials as author, educator, and professional financial consultant uniquely suit him to create this definitive text on personal fianance. After receiving his B.A. degree from Yale and his Juris Doctor degree from Syracuse University College of Law, he had a dual career for many years as a lawyer/banker, dealing with his clientele as a "financial problem solver." He then turned his efforts to the mass media to educate a broader audience in personal finance. Dr. Rosefsky...See more

Dr. Robert Rosefsky's credentials as author, educator, and professional financial consultant uniquely suit him to create this definitive text on personal fianance. After receiving his B.A. degree from Yale and his Juris Doctor degree from Syracuse University College of Law, he had a dual career for many years as a lawyer/banker, dealing with his clientele as a "financial problem solver." He then turned his efforts to the mass media to educate a broader audience in personal finance. Dr. Rosefsky's advice has been nationally syndicated in newspapers, radio and television. He has written ten books and a countless number of articles. He has won the prestigious national John Hancock Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism, and has served on the Board of Governors of the Society of American Business and Economics Writers. He has created two college-credit educational television courses, "You and the Law," and "Personal Finance" which has been nationally distributed by PBS, and which won an Emmy Award as "Best Instructional Series." Dr. Rosefsky has taught Business and Economic Reporting at the University of Southern California (USC) School of Journalism, as well as adult extension Financial Planning programs at UCLA, USC, and Coastline Community College. He has lectured extensively throughout the United States and abroad. He has also developed a leisure career as a travel writer and editor. He was co-founder and editor-in-chief of "CruiseNet," a print travel magazine focusing on cruise vacations, and is producing an Internet magazine "Life's a Trip." See less