Faculty Leading Excellence in Finance
MIT Sloan’s finance faculty are world-renowned thinkers who combine original insights and breakthrough ideas with a practical approach to finance education.
Like colleagues before them, today’s finance faculty is engaged in groundbreaking research of critical significance and relevance to the world.
Our faculty bring that research into the classroom, where students are exposed to the very latest in finance theory and practice.
FULL-TIME FACULTY

Paul Asquith
Gordon Y Billard Professor of Finance
Paul Asquith is the Gordon Y Billard Professor of Finance and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Asquith is a specialist in corporate finance and a media source for the field of corporate finance and control, including…
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Hui Chen
Nomura Professor of Finance
Hui Chen is the Nomura Professor of Finance and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.His research focuses on asset pricing and its connections with corporate finance. Chen is particularly interested in the interactions…
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Taha Choukhmane
Class of 1947 Career Development Assistant Professor
Taha Choukhmane is the Class of 1947 Career Development Assistant Professor and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.He was most recently a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His…
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John C. Cox
Nomura Professor of Finance, Emeritus
John Cox is the Nomura Professor of Finance, Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management.A leading authority on corporate finance and finance theory, Cox has developed an inter-temporal financial model broad enough to include the fundamental…
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Maryam Farboodi
Jon D. Gruber Career Development Associate Professor
Maryam Farboodi is the Jon D. Gruber Career Development Associate Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is an applied theorist whose research focuses on the economics of big data with applications to finance and…
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Gary Gensler
Professor of the Practice, Global Economics and Management|Professor of the Practice, Finance
Gary Gensler is Professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management as well as of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He conducts research and teaches on artificial intelligence, finance, financial technology, and public policy…
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Leonid Kogan
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Professor of Management
Leonid Kogan is the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Professor of Management and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also the faculty leader for the MFin degree program. Prior to MIT Sloan, Kogan taught at the Wharton…
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Tong Liu
Judy C. Lewent (1972) and Mark Shapiro Career Development Assistant Professor of Finance
Tong Liu is the Judy C. Lewent (1972) and Mark Shapiro Career Development Assistant Professor of Finance and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Tong’s research focuses on corporate finance, entrepreneurial…
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Andrew W. Lo
Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor
Andrew W. Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor, a Professor of Finance, and the Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Lo's current research spans four areas: evolutionary models of…
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Deborah J. Lucas
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance
Deborah Lucas is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy. Lucas’s recent research lies at the intersection of finance and policy, with a focus on…
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Robert C. Merton
School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance
Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management, and the John and Natty McArthur University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University.He was the George Fisher Baker Professor of…
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Lira Mota
Class of 1958 Career Development Assistant Professor
Lira Mota is the Class of 1958 Career Development Assistant Professor and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Before joining MIT, she worked at the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy at Princeton University…
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Stewart Myers
Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Financial Economics, Emeritus
Stewart C. Myers is the Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Finance, Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Myers is past President of the American Finance Association, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a…
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Christopher J. Palmer
Associate Professor, Finance
Christopher Palmer is an Associate Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he teaches corporate finance. His research focuses on how credit, real estate, and labor markets respond to periods of significant upheaval. Palmer…
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Jonathan A. Parker
Hear name pronounced.Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Financial Economics
Jonathan A. Parker is the Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Financial Economics, a codirector of both the MIT Sloan Consumer Finance Initiative and the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy. He is also an Economic Adviser for the Congressional…
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Lawrence D. W. Schmidt
Victor J. Menezes (1972) Career Development Assistant Professor of Finance
Lawrence D. W. Schmidt is the Victor J. Menezes (1972) Career Development Assistant Professor of Finance. He is an an applied economist working at the intersection of finance and macro-labor. Schmidt’s research has developed new insights about…
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Antoinette Schoar
Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance
Antoinette Schoar is the Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management. She holds a PhD is in Economics from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from Germany. Her research interests span from…
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Kerry Y. Siani
Class of 1958 Career Development Assistant Professor
Kerry Siani is the Class of 1958 Career Development Assistant Professor and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Siani does research on capital markets and their interaction with policy and the real economy. Her…
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David Thesmar
Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics
David Thesmar is the Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.He is an expert in corporate finance, financial intermediation, entrepreneurship, and behavioral economics…
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Adrien Verdelhan
Stephens Naphtal Professor of Finance
Adrien Verdelhan is the Stephens Naphtal Professor of Finance and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.His research focuses on measures of systematic risk in financial markets, particularly in currency and sovereign bond…
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Emil Verner
Albert F. (1942) & Jeanne P. Clear Career Development Associate Professor in Global Management
Emil Verner is the Albert F. (1942) and Jeanne P. Clear Career Development Associate Professor of Global Management and an Associate Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research lies at the intersection of finance and…
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Jiang Wang
Mizuho Financial Group Professor
Jiang Wang is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Wang’s research focuses on the pricing of financial assets and investment and risk management. He is currently working on the…
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Haoxiang Zhu
Gordon Y Billard Associate Professor of Finance
Haoxiang Zhu is Gordon Y Billard Professor of Management and Finance and Associate Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His main research interests are broadly in asset pricing, especially market structure and design. He has…
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Telis Dimitri Bertsekas
Lecturer
Telis Bertsekas is the MBA Finance Certificate Head at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the lecturer for 15.403 (Introduction to the Practice of Finance).He has spent the last 22 years working as an analyst and portfolio manager at firms…
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Nathaniel Gregory
Senior Lecturer, Finance
Nat Gregory is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Before joining MIT Sloan School of Management in the fall of 2013, Nat Gregory was Clinical Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he…
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Mark P. Kritzman
Senior Lecturer, Finance
Mark P. Kritzman is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Kritzman is also the president and chief executive officer of Windham Capital Management, LLC, and also serves as a senior partner of State Street Associates. He…
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Paul F. Mende
Hear name pronounced.Senior Lecturer, Finance
Paul Mende is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Mende co-founded, co-owned, and served as director of research from 2002 to 2010 for Fort Hill Capital Management, LLC, a hedge fund specializing in equity…
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Gita R. Rao
Senior Lecturer, Finance
Gita Rao is a Senior Lecturer in Finance, and Associate Faculty Director of the Master of Finance program at the MIT Sloan School of Management.She joined the MIT Sloan finance faculty with over two decades of experience in global investing, asset…
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Matthew Rothman
Senior Lecturer, Finance
Matthew Rothman is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also currently the head of statistical arbitrage strategies business at Millennium Management LLC (https://www.mlp.com), additionally serving as the deputy…
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Carl Stjernfeldt
Lecturer, Finance
Carl Stjernfeldt is a Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management.At ArcLight, Carl is focused on energy transition related investments, across a wide range of market segments and deal stages. Before ArcLight, Carl headed up the Corporate…
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Egor Matveyev
Research Scientist
Egor Matveyev is a Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist in Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.His research interests are in the fields of corporate finance, organizational economics, and corporate governance. Matveyev’s work has studied…
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Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Visiting Associate Professor, Finance
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Finance department at MIT Sloan where he teaches entrepreneurship. Rhodes-Kropf is also a managing partner at Tectonic Ventures.Rhodes-Kropf’s research on venture capital and exits has…
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Hong Ru
Visiting Associate Professor of Finance
Hong Ru is a Visiting Associate Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management, while also holding the position of tenured Associate Professor within the Banking & Finance division at Nanyang Business School, NTU.His research interests…
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Jules van Binsbergen
Visiting Professor of Finance
Jules van Binsbergen is a Visiting Professor in Finance at the Sloan School
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Lawrence Weiss
Senior Lecturer, Finance
Lawrence A. Weiss is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at MIT-Sloan. He has previously served on the faculties of McGill, Tulane, MIT, INSEAD, IMD, LBS, Georgetown, and Tufts. Weiss received his B. Com, Diploma in public accounting and MBA from McGill…
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Daron Acemoglu
Institute Professor
Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also affiliated with the National Bureau Economic Research, and the Center for Economic Policy Research. In 2024,…
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Dimitris Bertsimas
Associate Dean for Business Analytics
Dimitris Bertsimas is the Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management, a Professor of Operations Research, and the Associate Dean for the Master of Business Analytics at MIT. He was named Vice Provost for Open Learning in September…
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Munther A. Dahleh
William A. Coolidge Professor
Munther A. Dahleh is the William A. Coolidge Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and the Director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS).He is also affiliated with MIT’s Laboratory for…
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Kristin J. Forbes
Hear name pronounced.Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management
Kristin Forbes is the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.She has regularly rotated between academia and senior policy positions. From 2014-2017 she was an external member of…
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Bengt Holmstrom
Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, Emeritus
Bengt Holmstrom is the Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at MIT, where he also was head of the Economics Department from 2003-2006. He holds a joint appointment with MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Holmstrom is a Fellow of the American…
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S.P. Kothari
Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance
S.P. Kothari is Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Professor Kothari has senior executive experience in government, academia, and industry with expertise in strategic and policy issues,…
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Parag Pathak
MIT Professor
Parag A. Pathak is a Professor of Economics at MIT, founding co-director of the NBER Working Group on Market Design, and founder of MIT's School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative (SEII), a laboratory focused on education, human capital, and…
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Robert S. Pindyck
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd Professor in Finance and Economics
Robert Pindyck is the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd. Professor in Finance and Economics and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Pindyck’s most recent research focuses on economic policies related to rare disasters,…
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Tomaso A. Poggio
Eugene McDermott Professor
Tomaso A. Poggio is the Eugene McDermott Professor in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at MIT and the director of the new NSF Center for Brains, Minds and Machines at MIT, with managing partners at Harvard University and Cornell…
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James Michael Poterba
MIT Professor
James Poterba is the Mitsui Professor of Economics at MIT and the President of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a non-profit research organization with nearly 1400 affiliated economists. He has served as President of the Eastern Economic…
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Roberto Rigobon
Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management
Roberto Rigobon is the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Census…
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Eric So
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Global Economics and Finance
Eric So is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Global Economics and Management at MIT, where he studies how human nature and technology interact with incentives to shape decision making and market outcomes. A tenured full professor, he is a member…
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