Department Chair
                                                            
                                              Associate Professor & Chair
                                                                    Department of Finance
                                          
                  Research Interests
                      
                        Investments, Mutual Funds, Issues related to personal injury and loss
                      
                                          Teaching Faculty
                                                            
                                              Master Lecturer
                                                                    Department of Finance
                                          
                  Research Interests
                      
                        Trading Simulation Games.Closed-End Fund valuation.Maximizing Alpha through factor selection.
                      
                                          
                                                              
                    
                                          Winner of FMA's 2019 Innovative Teacher of the Year Award; С²ÝÉçÇø's 2019 Teaching with Technology Award; University Distinguished…
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                                              Professor & Eminent Scholar
                                                                    Department of Finance
                                          
                  Research Interests
                      
                        My research interests include corporate finance, asset pricing, the role of information in capital markets, international financial management, foreign investments, and foreign exchange markets. Dr. Doukas has published over ninety scientific academic articles on a wide range of finance and business-related issues in many academic journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Portfolio Management, Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Investing, Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, European Financial Management, Financial Management, and Financial Review.
                      
                                          
                                                              
                    
                                          Dr. John A. Doukas, earned his Ph.D in Financial Economics at Stern School of Business, New York University. He is Professor of…
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                                              Lecturer
                                                                    Department of Finance
                                          
                  Research Interests
                      
                        Insurance and Risk Management
                      
                                          Worked in the insurance industry for over 25 years, taught at community colleges, managed and owned agencies in the community
                                                            
                                                            
                                              Professor
                                                                    Department of Finance
                                          
                  Research Interests
                      
                        Property-Casualty Insurance, Enterprise Risk Management, Cyber Risk Management and Insurance.
                      
                                          Places I've  lived:
Kentucky, Oregon (Reed College for 2 years), New Mexico, Japan (Tokyo),  Florida, Virginia.
                                                            
                                              Professor
                                                                    Department of Finance
                                          
                  Research Interests
                      
                        Forecasting Financial Markets Volatility, Investments and Portfolio Management
                      
                                          
                                                              
                    
                                          Dr. Mohammad Najand joined the department of Finance in 1987. He teaches the junior/senior course in investments and Ph.D.…
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                                              Associate Professor & Chair
                                                                    Department of Finance
                                          
                  Research Interests
                      
                        Investments, Mutual Funds, Issues related to personal injury and loss
                      
                                          
                                                            
                                              Assistant Professor
                                                                    Department of Finance
                                          
                  Research Interests
                      
                        Asset Pricing, Derivatives, Volatility dynamics, Fintech, Machine Learning.
                      
                                          
                                                              
                    
                                          Dr. Mobina Shafaati is an assistant professor of finance at the Strome College of Business at С²ÝÉçÇø. Mobina's…
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                                              Professor
                                                                    Department of Finance
                                          
                  Research Interests
                      
                        Real Estate Capital Markets, REITs, Housing Economics, Real Estate Portfolio Management, International Finance, Forecasting
                      
                                          
                                                              
                    
                                          Simon Stevenson joined the Strome College of Business as the Robert M. Stanton Endowed Chair of Real Estate & Economic…
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                                              Associate Professor
                                                                    Department of Finance
                                          
                  Research Interests
                      
                        Real Estate and Housing Economics
                      
                                          
                                                              
                    
                                          Dr. Lei Zhang is an Associate Professor of Real Estate in the Department of Finance at the Strome College of Business, Old…
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                                              Professor
                                                                    Department of Finance
                                          
                  Research Interests
                      
                        Employment and civil rights, contract, intellectual property, internet and entertainment law
                      
                                          
                                                              
                    
                                          35 years experience teaching a variety of business law course at 4 Virginia Colleges and  Universities. Tenured in 2001 and…
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                              Current Ph.D. Students
- Ms. Sarah Almisher
 - Mr. Mohammad Amin Amoulashkarian
 - Ms. Enxi An
 - Mr. Navid Safari
 - Mr. Sounak Kishore Saha
 
- Mr. Aiden Norouzi
 - Ms. QiQi Liang
 - Mr. Mirarmia Jalali
 - Mr. Hesamoddin Tahami
 - Mr. Alireza Askarzadeh
 
- Mr. Andrew Cohen
 - Ms. Reihaneh Haghighi Zadeh
 - Mr. Mostafa Kanaani Torshizi