Ali Nejadmalayeri

Ali Nejadmalayeri, Ph.D., CFA (or as his students call him “Dr. N”) holds the John A. Guthrie Chair in Banking and Financial Services at the College of Business of the University of Wyoming (UW). He is also a fellow at UW’s Center of Blockchain and Financial Innovations. Between 2015 and 2018, he held the ONEOK Chair in Finance at Spears School of Business of Oklahoma State University (OSU). Concurrently, he was also the finance Ph.D. program director. Between 2012 and 2015, he held the Jay and Fayenelle Helm Professor in Business at OSU. He has taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate (MBA and doctoral) finance courses on bank management, markets and institutions, portfolio management, investments, and corporate finance. He is currently teaching a unique course on Blockchain and Banking, focusing on Central Bank Digital Currencies as well as Decentralized Finance. His has been nominated numerous times for best teacher awards. In 2017, he won OSU’s “Merrick Foundation Teaching Award on the American Free Enterprise System”.

Nejadmalayeri has published in major finance and economics journals, including the Review of Finance, the Journal of Business, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. His research generally deals with the interaction of corporate decisions and the capital (bond) markets. His recent work investigates the current and potential future structure of corporate bond ownership. His research has been recognized with numerous awards and accolades including the “2016 OSU-Tulsa President’s Outstanding Researcher of the Year” award. He is an associate editor at Global Finance Journal, an editorial review board member at Multidisciplinary Business Review, and a special edition’s editor at the Journal of Financial and Risk Management.

Nejadmalayeri holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran, an M.B.A. degree from Texas A&M University and a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Arizona. Prior to joining academia, he worked as an electrical engineer in the Oil and Gas industry. He has consulted with multinationals (Barclays Global) and local governments (the City of Tulsa).