Key Faculty
UNC Charlotte's national reputation and connection to America's second-largest financial city attracts professors from all over the world. Belk College students enjoy the advantage of learning from a full-time faculty that combines a passion for teaching and research with a commitment to their students' success. Through innovative applied research, our award-winning professors make significant contributions to their fields of expertise.
Our faculty are quoted and cited in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, which are published in top journals in their disciplines, and many serve as consultants to top businesses around the globe.
The Ph.D. in Business Administration program draws primarily upon faculty from the Department of Finance and the Department of Economics in the Belk College of Business, with support from the Department of Mathematics from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Below is a list of faculty members from each department who participate in the program.
Finance
Lloyd Blenman
Professor of Finance (Ph.D. Ohio State University)
Finance Theory, Derivatives, International Finance
I-Hsuan Ethan Chiang
Associate Professor of Finance (Ph.D. Boston College)
Asset Pricing, Financial Econometrics, Fixed Income Securities, Portfolio Management
Steven Clark
Associate Professor of Finance (Ph.D. Clemson University)
Mathematical Finance, Derivatives, Corporate Finance
Yufeng Han
Associate Professor of Finance (Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis)
Empirical Asset Pricing, Mutual Funds, International Finance, Term Structure, Financial Econometrics
Tao-Hsien Dolly King
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs
Rush S. Dickson Professor and Professor of Finance (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Corporate Finance, Fixed Income Securities
Christopher Kirby
Professor of Finance & Economics (Ph.D. Duke University)
Asset Pricing, Empirical Finance, Financial Econometrics
Gene Lai
Professor and James J. Harris Endowed Chair in Risk Management and Insurance (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin)
Risk Management and Insurance
David Mauer
Director, Ph.D. Program
Torrence E. Hemby Sr. Distinguished Professor of Finance (Ph.D. Purdue University)
Corporate Finance
Faith Neale
Associate Professor of Risk Management & Insurance (Ph.D. Florida State University)
Medical Malpractice, Insurance Regulation, Insurer Solvencey
Weidong Tian
Distinguished Professor in Risk Management & Insurance and Professor of Finance (Ph.D. McGill University)
Asset Pricing Models, Derivatives, Risk Management
Kiplan Womack
Associate Professor in Real Estate (Ph.D. University of Georgia)
Real Options, Land Values, Development, Redevelopment
Yilei Zhang
Assistant Professor of Finance (Ph.D. University of Iowa)
Security Issuance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Structure, Corporate Governance
Economics
Craig Depken II
Professor of Economics (Ph.D. University of Georgia)
Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Sports Economics
Paul Gaggl
Assistant Professor of Economics (Ph.D. University of California at Davis)
Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Financial Economics
Christopher Kirby
Professor of Finance & Economics (Ph.D. Duke University)
Asset Pricing, Empirical Finance, Financial Econometrics
Hwan Lin
Associate Professor of Economics (Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Economic Growth, Public Finance, Microeconomics
Thomas Mayock
Assistant Professor of Economics (Ph.D. Florida State University)
Urban Economics, Public Economics, Real Estate, Credit Risk
Rob Roy McGregor
Coordinator of the M.S. in Economics Program
Professor of Economics (Ph.D. University of South Carolina)
Monetary Economics, Econometrics, Macroeconomics
Lisa Schulkind
Assistant Professor of Economics (Ph.D., University of California, Davis)
Labor, Public, Health, Education
Kelly Vosters
Assistant Professor of Economics (Ph.D. Michigan State University)
Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics, the Economics of Education
Artie Zillante
Interim Senior Associate Dean
Associate Professor of Economics (Ph.D. Florida State University)
Auctions, Experimental Economics, Industrial Organizations
Mathematics
Joel Avrin
Professor of Mathematics (Ph.D. University of California - Berkeley)
Real Analysis, Partial Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics
Jaya Bishwal
Associate Professor of Mathematics (Ph.D. Sambalpur University)
Stochastic Differential Inference (SDI), Mathematical Finance, Financial Econometrics, Stochastic Analysis and Probability
Mohammad A. Kazemi
Professor and Associate Chair of Mathematics
Partial Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics
Adriana Ocejo Monge
Assistant Professor of Statistics (Ph.D. University of Warwick, UK)
Stochastic Processes, Mathematical Finance, Stochastic Optimal Control