Finance
The Finance Area faculty include renowned scholars who are experts in their field, as well as practitioners with real-world experience in the financial industry.
The Finance Area equips students with the skills to become globally oriented, financially sophisticated, and ethically minded in their use of finance to address complex global challenges. Through research and scholarship, the faculty studies the functioning of the global financial system to shape the responsible transformation of financial practice and global business. The finance faculty conducts research on a range of topics, from IPOs to personal wealth management.
Research Centers
Steers Center for Global Real Assets
Through highly applied class work and hands-on internships, the Steers Center for Global Real Assets educates and trains the next generation of ethically minded and socially-conscious real estate leaders who will be well-equipped to make positive change in the world.
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Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy
The Georgetown Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy is the preeminent destination for unbiased expertise at the intersection of finance and policy. The Psaros Center provides thought leadership and actively contributes to shaping global finance. Located in Washington, D.C., we connect policymakers, industry leaders, and scholars through solutions-driven platforms.
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The Finance Area faculty include renowned scholars who are experts in their field, as well as practitioners with real-world experience in the financial industry. Our faculty conducts research on a range of topics, from IPOs to personal wealth management.
Tenure Faculty
Robert E. McDonough Professor of Finance and Director, Georgetown Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy
Associate Professor
Academic Director, FINRA Certified Regulatory and Compliance Professional (CRCP (r)) Program at Georgetown
Professor
Research Associate at National Bureau of Economic Research
Assistant Professor of Finance
Robert S. Parker Chair, Professor of Business Administration
Associate Professor
Associate Director of Research, Psaros Center for Financial Markets & Policy
Associate Professor Emeritus
Associate Professor, Co-Academic Director, Reach Program and Director of Underrepresented Minority (URM)
A. James Clark Chair in Global Real Estate
Crnkovich Family Business of Health Chair
Professor and Senior Associate Dean, Graduate Programs in Finance
Lapeyre Family Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor
William G. Droms Professor and Finance Area Chair
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor and Associate Director, Georgetown Center for Financial Markets and Policy
Hachigian Family Professor and Director, Future of Work Initiative | Director, Future of Work Initiative
Director of the AI, Analytics and Future of Work Initiative
John A. Largay Professor Emeritus
Professor of Finance and the Bolton Sullivan and Thomas A. Dean Chair of International Business
Professor
Teaching Faculty
Associate Professor of the Practice
Atara Kaufman Professor of the Practice, Director of the Steers Center for Global Real Estate, and Academic Director, M.S. in Global Real Assets
Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of Academic Operations
Associate Teaching Professor | Associate Director, Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy
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Evan Goldschneider
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Adjunct Lecturer – SCS Summer Sessions Program | Adjunct Faculty
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Executive in Residence
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Managing Partner, Plandome Capital LLC
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Vice President, Center for American Progress
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Jay Wright
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Affiliate Visiting Researcher
News from Finance
More Finance Faculty News
In the News
Reena Aggarwal, Robert E. McDonough Professor of Finance, has made a profound impact at the intersection of financial markets and policy, both through her rigorous, data-driven scholarship and her leadership as Founding Director of the Georgetown Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy.
December 3, 2025
In the News
A Chicago Data Center Overheated—and Shut Down Trade in Key Markets Across the Globe
If NYSE’s New Jersey data center goes down, “all the other people just keep on trading,” said James Angel, a finance professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. But on the futures side, “the concentration in CME becomes a single point of failure.”
December 1, 2025
In the News
Jim Angel, a finance professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, suggested that Nvidia’s letter to Wall Street analysts was a precarious move, noting “there’s always the legal and regulatory risk when the CEO says, ‘Yes, everything is wonderful.’”
December 1, 2025