My research spans international finance, monetary policy and alternative investments. My work has been presented at top conferences, including the AEA, AFA, CICF, FMA, NBER and WFA and published in the American Economic Review and the Review of Financial Studies. Recently my work has been featured in Bloomberg, Risk.net and Yahoo! Finance and awarded the 2019-2020 Unigestion Alternative Risk Premia research academy project.
At Wake Forest I teach Corporate Finance, Quantitative Finance and International Finance in the undergraduate finance program and Financial Analytics in the Masters in Business Analytics program. I am the 2018-2019 recipient of the T.B. Rose Fellowship in Business Teaching Award for pedagogical innovation. I serve as the faculty advisor and program director to the Wake Forest University Actuarial Science Certificate. In 2022-2023, I served on the Core Planning Team to help craft the university's strategic framework for its next century.
I received a PhD in finance from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I earned a master's degree in Statistics and Operations Research and a bachelor's of science degree with highest honors in Mathematical Decision Sciences from the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at UNC-Chapel Hill. Prior to graduate school, I worked as an actuary at Cigna.
