Reuven Brenner worked with Bank of America, Knowledge Universe, EEN, Bell Canada, with investors in Canada, the US and Europe, and has been involved in the private equity markets as partner in Match Strategic Partners. He holds the Repap Chair at McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management since 1991, and is on the Board of McGill's Pension Fund. He has pursued entrepreneurial ventures, such as creating and selling "e-mortal.com," is partner in Purple Angels, and has been serving on company boards. He also served as expert witness in a number of cases, covering financial, anti-trust and bankruptcy matters. In other spheres, Quebec’s government asked him to be member of a commission whose mandate was to examine all aspects of Quebec’s possible separation. He was also asked to testify before US Congressional Commissions and Canada’s Senate’s Banking and Finance Committee.

He authored 8 books published by University of Chicago, Cambridge University Press and other. His recent books are A World of Chance (Cambridge UP, 2008) and Force of Finance (Thomson/Texere/Stoddart, 2002). His columns appeared in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Post, Asia Times, Strait Times, Figaro (in Paris) among others. Forbes’ journalists put two of his earlier books in their all time recommended list, and Forbes Global, August 1998, dedicated a cover story, titled “Leapfrogging,” to his works and endeavors. He has been asked to share podium and roundtables with Paul Volcker, Michael Milken, and Mexico's, Israel's, Poland's and other countries' central bankers and finance ministers. Brenner also received the Killam Award (1992), the Royal Society elected him as “Fellow”(1999), and he received a Fulbright Fellowship Grant (1976).

Brenner was born in Rumania and immigrated to Israel in 1962. He served in the Israeli army between 1966-69, during the Six-Day War, and again during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The Fulbright fellowship brought him in 1977 to Chicago, after completing his PhD at the Hebrew University and working at the Bank of Israel, where he received the First Prize from Israeli banks (for work with Saul Bronfeld, designing indexed securities). He lives in Canada since 1980. He is fluent in English, French, Hebrew and Hungarian.