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Lakshmi Balasubramanyan was an Assistant Professor of Finance at Indiana State University. She received her Ph.D.in Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics with her major fields being Finance and Production Economics from The Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include bank risk management, credit allocation, banking efficiency and industrial organization of banking. Currently, she is a Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

 

Jiang Cheng. In addition to serving as a Scott College of Business visiting scholar during Spring 2011, Jiang Cheng has taught actuarial science, corporate governance, international corporate finance and economics for several years in the United States and in China. He currently teaches in the Department of Accounting, Antai College of Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China.  He received a B. S. in Economics & Applied Mathematical Statistics from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and an MBA from Fudan University, China. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Risk Management and Insurance from Temple University at Philadelphia. Cheng's research has been published by leading insurance journals in the United States, such as Journal of Risk and Insurance. He specializes in insurance regulation, corporate governance, financial market and institution, and accounting manipulation. 

 

M. Kabir Hassan is a financial economist with consulting, research and teaching experiences in development finance, money and capital markets, corporate finance, investments, monetary economics, macroeconomics, Islamic banking,  international trade and finance. He has published five books and over 70 articles in refereed academic journals and has presented over 100 research papers at professional conferences globally and has provided consultant services to several national and international organizations and governments.  Dr. Hassan is an associate professor of finance at the University of New Orleans, where he has been recognized for for his research and has seven times won an Outstanding Teacher Award.  Dr. Hassan holds an M.A. in economics and a Ph.D. in finance from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Hassan is involved with several professional, civic and cultural organizations. He is on the Board of Directors of the Academy of Financial Services, the Asian Pacific American Society, the New Orleans Museum of Arts, and the Association for Economic and Development Studies on Bangladesh, USA. Dr. Hassan has been elected as the President of the Academy of International Business-SW, the Association for Economic and Development Studies on Bangladesh (AEDSB), and the Southwestern Society of Economists (SSE). A frequent traveler, Dr. Hassan gives lectures and consulting advice in the US and abroad.

 

 

W. Jean Kwon holds an MBA in risk management and insurance from The College of Insurance in New York (now known as the School of Risk Management of St. John’s University) and a Ph.D. in the same field from Georgia State University. He is a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU).  He taught insurance at Georgia State University and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. In Singapore, he also provided consulting services to insurance companies and organizations in the region and worked as Director of Special Projects, Insurance Department, Monetary Authority of Singapore. In the United States, he worked as curriculum director at the American Institute for CPCU. He has authored several books, including Risk Management and Insurance: Perspectives in a Global Economy and Risk Management and Insurance in Singapore. He currently teaches the School of Risk Management, continues to publish papers in academic and professional journals, presents research findings at various conferences, serves editorial boards of several journals, and advices multiple insurance institutions in the United States and abroad. He helped to establish Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association and organize World Risk and Insurance Economics Congress.

 

 

Art Sherwood is an Associate Professor of Management in the College of Business at Indiana State University.  He works closely with the Networks Scholars program to develop theoretically sound and pedagogically exciting seminars and workshops for the scholars.  He has taught university courses in the US, Poland and Hungary, including strategic management, leadership, management principles, organizational behavior, entrepreneurship and international business.  His research interests focus upon the strategic implications of leadership, trust and learning in inter- and intraorganizational relationships, including domestic and international strategic alliances.  He has published his work in professional journals including Journal of Financial Service Professionals, Leadership and Organizational Studies and Journal of Management Education.  His current research focuses on small bank strategies and their performance and economic development implications, leadership/managerial development and on strategic issues in organizational relationships.  He has worked extensively with industry as an employee, consultant and executive educator.  He received his Ph.D., M.A. and M.B.A from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and his B.B.A from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

 

Sharon Tennyson is Associate Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University.  Dr. Tennyson is a noted expert on economic and policy issues related to insurance and has published extensively on topics related to government regulation of insurance markets, insurance fraud, insurance distribution and consumer attitudes and knowledge of insurance.  Her research has received funding from a variety of sources including the National Science Foundation, and has been published in high quality economics, insurance and finance journals and in prestigious edited collections.  Dr. Tennyson is a member of several national organizations and editorial boards and is a past president of the Risk Theory Society.  She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University, and was previously on the faculty of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. 

 

Christopher Whalen is Senior Managing Director of Tangent Capital Partners in New York, where he works as an investment banker providing advisory services focused on companies in the financial services sector. Whalen is co-founder and Vice Chairman of the board of Lord, Whalen LLC, parent of Institutional Risk Analytics, the Los Angeles based provider of bank ratings, risk management tools and consulting services for auditors, regulators and financial professionals.  Whalen authored Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream (2010), now in a second printing from John Wiley & Sons, and he currently edits The Institutional Risk Analyst, a weekly news report and commentary on significant developments in and around the global financial markets. He also contributes articles to Zero Hedge, Housing Wire and The Big Picture. Whalen has appeared before Congress, the Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on a range of financial, economic and political issues. He is a member of Professional Risk Managers International Association and was regional director of PRMIA’s Washington D.C. chapter from 2006 through January 2010. He is a member of the Economic Advisory Committee of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Global Interdependence Center in Philadelphia.  For further information, please visit www.rcwhalen.com.