Faculty

Cristián Bravo Roman

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Credit Scoring and Credit Risk; Fintech; Artificial Intelligence and Data Science; Profit-driven Business Analytics
Teaching: Banking Analytics

Daniel Brou

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Economic and Political Integration; International Policy Agreements; Political Economy; Financial Markets and Institutions; Economic Growth
Teaching: Advanced Corporate Finance; Financial Markets and Institutions

Jorge Cruz Lopez

Visiting Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Asset Pricing; Risk Management; Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs)
Teaching: Financial Economics, The Economics of Derivatives

Marcos Escobar-Anel

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Financial Mathematics; Stochastic Processes; Pricing and Dynamic Portfolio Optimization
Teaching: Financial Options

Zhichuan (Frank) Li

Associate Professor of Finance and Paul Desmarais/London Life Faculty Fellow in Finance

Research Interests / Specializations: Financial Theory and Research Methods; Financial Management; Corporate Finance
Teaching: Financial Theory and Research Methods; Financial Management; Corporate Finance

Jim MacGee

Associate Professor - On Leave

Research Interests / Specializations: Macroeconomics; International Economics
Teaching: Macroeconomics; International Trade

Christopher Nicholls

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Business Law
Teaching: Law and Economics; Mergers, Acquisitions; Securities Regulation

Ananth Ramanarayanan

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: International Trade; Macroeconomics
Teaching: Macroeconomics

Srikanth Ramani

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Research Interests: Corporate Finance; Financial Management; Mutual Funds and ESG; Textual Analysis
Teaching: Finance

Javad Rastegari Koopaei

Lecturer, Research Associate

Research Interests / Specializations: Option Pricing, Financial Econometrics, Time Series, Fourier Analysis, Functional Analysis
Teaching: Financial Options

Stephen Sapp

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Foreign Exchange; Corporate Governance; Valuation of International Securities; Empirical Methods in Financial Economics
Teaching: International and Empirical Finance; Risk Management; International Business

Charles Saunders

Assistant Professor - MFE Director

Research Interests / Specializations: Simulation-Based Inference; Dynamic Panel Models; Mixed-Frequency; Forecast Evaluation; Productivity; Spatial Models
Teaching: Econometrics

John Schmitz

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Finance; Investment
Teaching: Investment Portfolio Management; Finance

Lars Stentoft

Associate Professor/Joint with the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences

Research Interests / Specializations: Finance; Financial Econometrics; Computational Finance; Econometrics
Teaching: Time Series Econometrics

John Tsagarelis

Lecturer

Research Interests / Specializations: Portfolio Management; Stock Market
Teaching: Cash Flow Analysis and Investments

Shyam Ventkatesan

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Delegated Portfolio Management; Empirical Asset Pricing; Principal-agent games; Energy Finance
Teaching: Empirical Asset Pricing; Valuation; Financial Management