(Part-Time) Academics

MBA FACULTY - Chitru Fernando

MICHAEL F. PRICE PROFESSOR OF FINANCE AND
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF FINANCE;
DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR FINANCIAL STUDIES

PhD (Pennsylvania) Professor Fernando's research interests are in corporate finance, corporate risk management, liquidity risk in financial markets, and energy markets. He has several publications to his credit, including articles in major refereed journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Financial Markets, Financial Management, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Energy Journal and European Journal of Operational Research. He is the recipient of several research awards and eight research grants, including three from the World Bank, and one each from the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation and the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Wharton Risk and Decision Processes Center and a Research Fellow at the Wharton Financial Institutions Center. He has held faculty appointments at the University of Michigan Business School and Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business where he received the MBA Teacher of the Year award. He has also served on the faculty of the Carnegie-Mellon Program for Executives and as a Research Associate at the World Bank. He has lectured on corporate and international finance, and risk management topics to executives in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Professor Fernando has been cited for his teaching in three Business Week surveys of business schools. Dr. Fernando received the Ph.D. in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; M.A. in Applied Economics from the University of Pennsylvania; M.S. in Management from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.S. in Technology and Policy from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and the B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering with First Class Honors from the University of Sri Lanka.

Address
OU Price College of Business
Division of Finance
307 W. Brooks, suite 251
Norman, Oklahoma 73019

Contact
(405) 325-2906
cfernando@ou.edu
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