Margaret M. Blair is a professor at the Vanderbilt University Law School, where she teaches classes in corporate and corporate finance law, and seminars on corporate boards and theories of the firm.
Blair was a research associate and a senior fellow from 1988-2004 at the Brookings Institution's Economic Studies Program, where she wrote books and articles, directed research projects and organized conferences on corporate governance, human capital and corporations and mergers and acquisitions.
Blair was a Business Week writer and bureau manager and a reporter for the Houston Chronicle.
She received her bachelor's degree in journalism and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Oklahoma. She earned two master's degrees in economics and her doctorate in economics at Yale University.
