Reena Aggarwal

Robert E. McDonough Professor of Finance and Director, Georgetown Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy

Professor Aggarwal is a globally renowned expert in the field of finance, with a focus on global financial markets; market regulation; short term funding markets; IPOs; capital raising; ETFs; corporate governance including proxy voting, executive compensation, and director elections; role of institutional investors; and FinTech, digital assets, and Central Bank Digital Currencies. Dr. Aggarwal has had tremendous impact at the intersection of financial markets and policy both through her research and also by leading the Georgetown Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy. She combines rigorous data-driven scholarship with deep knowledge of the institutional workings and regulation of financial markets. She is a globally renowned scholar, her work is very well-cited, and she has served on the editorial boards of several finance journals. Her research has received prestigious awards including the BlackRock-National Association of Corporate Directors Award. Her research and analysis are frequently cited in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, CNBC, and CNN among others.

Professor Aggarwal is an award-winning teacher and has been named among “Outstanding Faculty” in the Business Week Guide to the Best Business Schools; voted as the Outstanding Professor by EMBA students; and described as the Favorite Professors of the ‘Best & Brightest’ Executive MBAs, Poets and Quants. She was honored with the Allan N. Nash Distinguished Doctoral Graduate Award by University of Maryland, and the Distinguished Alumnus Award by BITS Pilani.

In addition to her academic achievements, Dr. Aggarwal has an impressive track record of serving in leadership roles including Vice Provost for Faculty for all the schools on Georgetown’s Main Campus, Interim Dean, and Deputy Dean of the McDonough School of Business. Furthermore, she has been a Visiting Professor of Finance at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, a FINRA Academic Fellow, an Academic Fellow at the U.S. SEC, and a Visiting Research Scholar at the IMF, World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Financing and Capital; Fulbright Scholar to Brazil; and Distinguished Scholar at the Reserve Bank of India’s CAFRAL. She has served in several leadership roles for professional associations including President of Financial Management Association International; boards of American Finance Association, Western Finance Association and ECGI.

Dr. Aggarwal’s expertise extends beyond academia, she has consulted for governments, companies, and organizations such as the IMF, World Bank, UN, IFC, OPIC, IADB, and OECD. She has provided valuable advice to financial institutions, stock exchanges, and securities commissions in several countries. She serves on the boards of for-profit financial firms.

She received a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Maryland and M.M.S. from BITS, India.

Bidisha Chakrabarty

Associate Dean and Edward Jones Professor of Finance at Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business – Saint Louis University

Dr. Bidisha Chakrabarty is the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs at the Chaifetz School of Business at Saint Louis University. Prior to that, she was the Chair of the Finance Department. She also hold the Edward Jones Endowed Chair Professorship at Saint Louis University.

Dr. Chakrabarty, who is recognized for her teaching and research, has received several awards and recognitions including the Faculty Research Best Paper Annual Award given by the Chaifetz School of Business, the Responsible Research in Management Award by the Academy of Management Fellows, and the Fr. Thomas Knapp Distinguished Faculty Award. She has been awarded the NYU-NSE Financial Markets Research Grant, and her work has been recognized by the Plato Partnership, Spanish Finance Association, NFA, and the New Zealand Superannuation Award.

Dr. Chakrabarty’s research focus is computational finance and fintech, specifically algorithmic trading, platform and market design, and spatial finance. She has published over thirty research articles across top cross-disciplinary fields in Finance, Accounting, Operations, and Management. Her work has been supported with grants from multiple international stock exchanges and financial regulators across the world, and featured in various media outlets, such as the CFO Magazine and the Harvard Law Forum.

In the most recent rankings by SSRN, she is included in the top 10% of all-time highest-downloaded authors in the world.

Professor Tarun Chordia received his PhD in finance from the Anderson School, UCLA, in 1993. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked for Citibank as a relationship and credit manager in the Financial Institutions Group. He has been an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University from 1993 to 2000. He joined the Goizueta Business School at Emory University in 2000.

Professor Chordia’s research is grounded in both theory and empirical methods and spans a diverse area of financial economics. Professor Chordia has published extensively in the top finance journals, including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Business, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, and Management Science. He has received numerous awards for his research on empirical asset pricing and market microstructure. He has been the managing editor of the Journal of Financial Markets from 2013 to 2022 and a past associate editor of Review of Financial Studies. He is on the program committee for numerous conferences and is a referee for numerous journals.