Professor Foued Ayari

Professor Ayari received his PhD in Financial Economics from the City University of New York and his MS from the University of Paris XIII (France).He is Assistant Professor of Finance at Wagner College and a faculty of the International Executive Programs at the Zicklin School of Business in New York.

Outside of the academia, he’s been providing Financial Training and Consulting Services to top tier Investment Banks on several areas of finance such as Derivatives, Credit Derivatives, Fixed Income, Investment Management and Risk Management. He’s also been in charge of exam training for the CFA and PRM exams. He has provided extensive training in US, Europe and Asia. Dr Ayari is the founder and CEO of Bullquest LLC , a financial training and consulting company based on Wall Street, New York.

Previously he worked as a Research Assistant-Consultant for the New York State Banking Department where he led projects on topics such as Credit Derivatives Market pricing methodologies and Basel II. Foued has also worked several years in real estate investment and management in Paris, France.

He is the author of an incoming book (2008, “Understanding Credit Derivatives”) with Wiley & Sons, which will provide a practical understanding of credit derivatives, their applications, their pricing and the strategies.

Professor Turan Bali

Professor Bali received his Ph.D. in Financial Economics in 1998 from the City University of New York. His research interests are in the areas of asset pricing, financial risk management and derivatives. Professor Bali's research has been presented at a number of international conferences and has been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Business, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Economics Dynamics and Control, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Economics and Business, Journal of Fixed Income, Economics Letters, Risk, and others. At Baruch College, Professor Bali has taught undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. courses in options, investments, international finance, and financial econometrics.

Professor Golan Benita

Dr. Golan Benita received his Ph.D. in finance from the Hebrew University. His teaching and research interests include International Corporate Finance, Asset Pricing, Portfolio Management, Exchange Rate and Foreign Currency Options. He also works as a senior economist in the Bank of Israel.

Professor Kenneth Bigel

Dr. Kenneth S. Bigel earned his M.B.A and Ph.D. degrees from New York University and is a professor of Finance and Business Ethics. He is a published scholar, and expert in the areas of market failure, forensic finance, investment management, and corporate finance. Dr. Bigel is a member of the National Association of Security Dealers Board of Arbitrators, and has provided expert testimony in notable cases including Enron. Dr. Bigel earned his M.B.A and Ph.D. degrees from New York University. He is also a Certified Financial Planner registrant.

Professor Juan F. Cabrera

Juan F. Cabrera is an Adjunct Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Finance, Zicklin School of Business (Baruch College), for the past 3 years. His research interests include Econometrics, Microstructure Finance, Banking, Derivatives and Foreign Exchange Markets. At the City University of New York, Professor Cabrera has taught undergraduate and masters level courses in econometrics, money and banking, economic policy and investments.

Professor Michael Carew

Professor Michael Carew received his Ph. D in U.S. Economic History, and his M.B.A in economics form New York University. His teaching and research interests are in the evolution of economic theory and the formulation of economic and financial policies with a focus on Political Economy. Prior to his academic work he was a senior corporate executive and Chief Financial Officer in New York investment and commercial banking, including insurance, real estate and government finance. He has published articles on historical finance, and his first book will be published this fall.

Professor Viktoria Dalko

Professor Dalko received her MA and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently teaching at Harvard University. Before coming to Baruch, she was at Thunderbird,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Munich and Budapest University of Economic Sciences in Hungary. She served as Chief of Staff of the Committee of Budget, Taxes and Finances of the

Hungarian Parliament and advisor to the President of the National Bank of Hungary.

Professor Yoram Eden

Professor Eden, CPA, is the Dean of the Business Administration School, The College of Management, Academic Studies, Israel. Professor Eden received his Ph.D in Accounting and Finance from Tel-Aviv University. His research is in the areas of managerial accounting and insurance. He has published numerous journal articles and co-authored a book.

Professor Eden is a member of the Council of the Institute of certified Public Accountants in Israel, and the editor of its journal. He has served as a member of the IFAC Education Committee.

Professor Ali Fatemi

Ali Fatemi is the Dean of Graduate School of Business at the American University of Paris and Professor of Economics at the College of Arts and Sciences. His area of teaching and research interests are monetary economics, international finance and economics of financial markets. Formerly he has been chairman of economics department at he University of Akron in Ohio and at the American University of Paris. He has served as visiting Professor of Economics and Finance at the Universities of Westminster in London and at the Maastricht University in Holland.

He has been the recipient of several research grants from the National Science Foundation in the U.S. and the UNESCO in Paris. He has co-authored three books in addition to many articles and is currently an editor of the International Review of Business and Economics. He writes regular columns on political and economic aspects of the Middle East for a weekly Keyhan, a weekly journal published in London. He holds a BS in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Economics from the New School University in New York.

Professor Lewis Friedman

Lewis Friedman has been involved in nyc real estate for over 30 years. He purchased his first property in the depth of the 1970’s financial crisis of the city. Starting with residential loft buildings, he expanded to small to medium apartment buildings primarily in the east village and Morningside heights area of Columbia University. The portfolio of almost 50 buildings was sold in early 2006.

During these years, as president of Merlon Management Corporation, Lewis Friedman had decision making authority in almost all aspects of residential real estate including:

Acquisition, and disposition of properties, Institutional and investor financing, Co-op conversions, Gut renovation of entire buildings, as well as individual apartment units, etc.

Lewis Friedman a graduate of the Bronx High school of science and the City University of New York. He has a Ph.D.in political science, and for many years he was a tenured faculty member of CUNY. His specialty was public budgeting and financial management. He also was the educational program director for the national urban fellows program, one of the leading efforts to promote minority educational and leadership in public and not for profit organizations.

As managing partner of eagles nest capital, Lewis continues to be actively involved in NYC residential real estate. He is currently developing a ground-up 55,000 sq.ft. luxury condeminium property on West Broadway in Soho, as well as the ownership and management of several residential buildings in the city. He has continued his academic teaching as an adjunct professor for the real estate program at Baruch College. He is also serving in a pro bono capacity as a consultant on real estate issues to several non-profit organizations in the city.

Professor Hadas Gelander

Hadas Gelander is professor of finance and accountancy at the College of Management in Israel and at Baruch College International programs department. She previously taught at Hebrew University and at Baruch College - Accountancy department . She is awarded CPA license. She is the Coordinator of Examinations of the Israeli Council of Public Accountants – Introduction to Accounting. She has consulted and organized training projects for KPMG, as the Coordinator of Training Department.

Professor Luis Hall

Dr. Luis J. Hall is an assistant professor in economics and finance at the Department of Economics of Universidad de Alicante in Spain. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from New York University. Dr. Hall held previous positions in the New York State Banking Department, as external-researcher for the World Bank and Inter-American Developing Bank and formerly taught at New York University. He has been consultant for several banks focusing his research primarily on credit and credit default. His research interest is in corporate finance.

Professor Reuven Horesh

Professor Horesh received his Ph.D. in Finance from Columbia University in N.Y.C. His teaching and research interests include l Corporate Finance, Capital Markets and R&D economics and financing. He has consulted and organized executive training projects for The World Bank, UNIDO and many Israeli companies. Professor Horesh served as Dean of a big business school and held a visiting Professor position at some universities including Columbia University. He served as the Director General of the Ministry of Industry and Trade in Israel.

Professor Armen Hovakimian

Professor Hovakimian received his Ph.D. in Finance in 1998 from Boston College. His research interests are in the areas of corporate finance and financial institutions. His recent research has focused on empirical tests of corporate capital structure theories and the effects of deposit insurance on commercial banks’ risk taking behavior. Professor Hovakimian's research has been presented at a number of international conferences and has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Business, and others. At Baruch College, Professor Hovakimian has taught undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. courses in financial management and corporate finance.

Professor Christopher Hessel

Professor Hessel is a full time member of the Zicklin School of Business teaching a full spectrum of courses ranging from undergraduate introduction to finance courses to Graduate advanced electives in risk management. He is also a member of the faculty for the executive masters in finance program. Professor graduated NYU Stern school with a PhD in Finance. Over his career he has published many scholarly papers in financial journals. For the past 16 years Professor Hessel has be running in-house executive training programs for banks and corporations and has hosted conferences in 21 countries for companies like Euromoney Financial Training, and Linton Capital Markets.

Professor Gady Jacoby

Gady Jacoby is Associate Professor of Finance at the Asper School of Business, The University of Manitoba. He is also the Stuart Clark Professor in Financial Management. Gady has chaired the Finance Area Ph.D. Committee since 1999. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from York University in 1999, and graduated cum laude from the MA program in Finance and received a BA in Economics and Accounting from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Gady’s Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Three Essays on Defaultable Fixed-Income Securities" was nominated for the York University Best Dissertation Award. He has received numerous research grants and merit awards. They include three grants from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, two CMA Canada Academic Merit Awards, the Ontario Graduate Scholarship Fund, and several merit awards at the University level.

The focus of Gady’s research and consulting work is on the subjects of fixed-income securities, asset-pricing models, market microstructure, and behavioral finance. He has published articles in several journals, including the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Financial Research, Applied Financial Economics, Journal of Applied Finance, and Research in International Business and Finance. Gady teaches courses in financial economics, fixed-income securities, investments, corporate finance and financial modeling at the undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. levels. Gady has held visiting academic positions at New York University and the University of Melbourne, and he also taught in China and Uruguay.

Professor Bruce Kamich

Professor Bruce Kamich has lectured on Technical Analysis at Baruch for 14 years.  He brings 35 years of practical experience to the table as a practitioner of Technical Analysis.  Over the years he has covered commodities, interest rates, currencies and equities.  He became a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) in 1992 and is a two time past president of the Market Technicians Association, the top professional organization for analysts.  Professor Kamich is the author of How Technical Analysis Works, selected by Barron's and The Stock Trader's Almanac as one of their top best investment books in 2003 and 2004.  Traders around the world in the fixed income markets have read his market commentaries and forecasts on Reuters and Bloomberg for 14 years when he co-managed the on-line advisory services of MoneyWatch and YieldWatch, which covered the US Treasury market and global bonds.  In addition to his job at Smith Barney and his teaching at Baruch, Professor Kamich is the president of the Market Technicians Association Education Foundation.

Professor Jae Won Lee

Professor Lee has been teaching in various graduate programs at Baruch College, including Jack Nash Honors MBA, Zicklin Fulltime Honors MBA, Executive MBA (EMBA), and Executive MS in Finance (EMSF) programs. In addition, Professor Lee has taught in CUNY Ph.D. programs in Business and Economics. In EMSF program, he has taught Quantitative Tools for Finance for over 11 years in New York campus, and taught International Financial Markets in Singapore campus for the past 2 years. In EMBA and MBA programs, he has taught International Financial Markets, International Economics, and Managerial Economics for over 26 years.

Prior to joining the academia, he had worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research as an analyst in the “Interest Rate Analysis”, “Productivity and Inflation” and “Diffusion of New Technology” projects. While in the academia, he has served as a consultant to Control Data Corporation, New York Telephone Company, and New York State Consumer Protection Board. Professor Lee has written scholarly articles and chapters in monographs in economics and finance. He received his BA in economics from Seoul National University, and his MA and Ph.D. in economics from City University of New York.

Professor Dan Levin

Dr. Levin had his Ph.D in Business and Applied Economics at The Wharton School, and was on the faculty of Wharton School, Tel Aviv University and The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Currently he is at the international MBA program at the Helsinki School of Economics and Business, and at Baruch College EMSF – CUNY program at Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. Dr. Levin is an expert on the use and assessment of advanced technologies in various business and military applications. He was a board member in numerous companies and currently he is on the board of Polar Investments.

Professor Ronny Manos

Ronny Manos is a lecturer of Finance. Educated at the University of Birmingham (Ph.D Finance), her previous university appointment was at the Department of Economics, Loughborough University. She also lectured and taught at the Birmingham Business School. Her main areas of interest are in company finance in emerging markets, international finance and microfinance. She was nominated for the short list of finalists for the Haynes Prize for the Most Promising Scholar Award, Academy of International Business Annual Meeting 2005. Her works appear in journals such as the Journal of Economics and Business and Advances in Financial Economics. She teaches on the MBA and undergraduate programmes, and her courses include the following: Investment Management; Introduction to Finance; Multinational Business Finance; and Corporate Finance.

Professor Roger Mesznik

Roger Mesznik has more than twenty five year experience lecturing, teaching, and consulting on financial management, capital markets, financial instruments and securities -- including financial derivatives, economics of the firm, corporate restructuring, M&A, corporate finance, and managerial accounting. Mr. Mesznik taught in degree-granting executive programs -- mostly in executive MBA and MS programs, and in training senior executives and MBA students. Mr. Mesznik received numerous awards and distinctions for excellence in teaching.

Mr. Mesznik teaches at the Graduate Business School of Columbia University. Mr. Mesznik has taught or is teaching at the Stern School of Business at New York University, at INSEAD in France, at Baruch College of CUNY. Mr. Mesznik has also taught in Canada, Kuwait, Portugal, Austria, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, and in the joint Columbia-Berkeley executive MBA program. Mr. Mesznik is a frequent lecturer and consultant to corporations and multi-national and international institutions on finance, financial management, and economic analyses. Mr. Mesznik has also held full-time positions in the electronics industry and the pharmaceutical industry in the US and overseas. Mr. Mesznik has published in the Journal of Sustainable Forestry, Forecasting Letters, Risk Letters, The American Economist, the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce.

Mr. Mesznik has a Ph.D. and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City. He also undertook graduate and undergraduate studies in industrial engineering.

Professor Kenneth Mischel

Kenneth Mischel is an Associate Professor of Finance in the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York. He got his PHD in Finance from Columbia University. His research interests include security pricing, risk management and the history of ideas about chance and its management. He has published numerous essays and book reviews in a wide variety of scholarly journals. He lives in Riverdale, New York with his wife and their three young children.

Professor Gur Mosheiov

Professor Gur Mosheiov is the head of the MBA Program of The Hebrew University in Jerusalem since 1999. He received his B.Sc. in mathematics and physics and his MBA from The Hebrew University, and his Ph.D. in management science/operations research from The Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He taught in Columbia University and in Helsinki School in Economics. He teaches in the International Executive Program of Baruch College, CUNY since 2002. His research focuses on combinatorial optimization problems, and on practical OR problems. He has published about 60 papers in journals like Management Science, Operations Research, Operations Research Letters, The European Journal of Operational Research, and Naval Research Logistics, among others.

Professor Thomas Piskula

Professor John Schofield

Tempus Investment Research - Founder and principal Director: Independent consultancy providing technical research on the major Asian equity markets to a range of buy side and sell side clients. HK SFC registered (RA4) since April 2003.

Also worked as the regional Technical Strategist of Prudential-Bache Securities, Regional Technical Analyst of Schroder Securities, Director of Emerging Markets Debt Arbitrage of Samuel Montagu & Co and Director of Debt Swap Unit at Lloyds Bank Group.

Experienced in the development of earnings database, structuring arbitrage and value-added transactions revolving around debt exchanges and equity swaps in Latin America.

Professor Robert A. Schwartz

Robert A. Schwartz is Marvin M. Speiser Professor of Finance and University Distinguished Professor in the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY. Before joining the Baruch faculty in 1997, he was Professor of Finance and Economics and Yamaichi Faculty Fellow at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, where he had been a member of the faculty since 1965. Professor Schwartz received his Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University. His research is in the area of financial economics, with a primary focus on the structure of securities markets.

He has published over 50 refereed journal articles and fifteen books, including The Equity Trader Course (co-authored with Reto Francioni and Bruce Weber) Wiley & Sons, 2006, Equity Markets in Action: The Fundamentals of Liquidity, Market Structure and Trading (co-authored with Reto Francioni) Wiley & Sons, 2004, and Reshaping the Equity Markets: A Guide for the 1990s, Harper Business, 1991 (reissued by Business One Irwin, 1993). He has served as a consultant to various market centers including the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, the London Stock Exchange, Instinet, the Arizona Stock Exchange, Deutsche Börse, and the Bolsa Mexicana.

From April 1983 to April 1988, he was an associate editor of The Journal of Finance, and he is currently an associate editor of the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, the Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, and The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance & Business Ventures, and is a member of the advisory boards of International Finance and The Journal of Trading. In December 1995, Professor Schwartz was named the first chairman of Nasdaq's Economic Advisory Board, and he served on the EAB until Spring 1999. He is developer, with Bruce Weber, of the trading and market structure simulation, TraderEx (http://www.etraderex.com/).

Professor Haim Shapira

Professor Shapira received his Ph.D in Mathematics (1995), Ph.D in Science Education (1995), M.Sc. in Statistics and Probability (1991) from Tel-Aviv University.

His teaching and research interests include Economics, Behavior Science, Law, Management, Mathematics and Computers. He was awarded Best lecturer prize in 2004.

Professor Amir Shoham

Amir Shoham (PhD) holds degrees in Economics and Business Administration from Ben-Gurion University. He is currently on the faculty of the Department of Business Administration, College of Management and Department of Economics, Sapir Academic College, both in Israel. Amir teaches numerous courses including Managerial Economics, Introduction to Finance, International Finance, International Economics, Quantitative Tools in Finance, and Investment. He sits on the Boards of Directors of two public firms. His research interests include international finance and international economics and he has recently published articles in Journal of International Business Studies, The Global Economy Journal, International Journal of Business and Economics, Peace Economics, and Peace Science and Public Policy.

Professor Vanessa Strauss-Kahn

Vanessa Strauss-Kahn is Associate Dean of the Graduate Business School and Associate Professor of Economics and Finance. She received a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University and has been faculty member at INSEAD for 7 years. Previously, she worked for the World Bank in Washington, D.C., as well as for the United Nations Development Program on specific missions. Professor Strauss-Kahn’s research focuses on firms’ location decision, clustering effects, outsourcing decision and its impact on the labor market, and more recently on headquarters location within and across countries. Her research has been published in renowned journals such as The American Economic Review or The European Economic Review. She has been active in refereeing for several journals and has written teaching cases. Since 2006, Vanessa Strauss-Kahn is Research affiliate in the International Trade program, Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), UK. 

Professor Zeynep Topaloglu

Zeynep Topaloglu is a professor of business and economics at the Queens College and currently working in the field of forensic economics and valuation analysis in New York. She received her M.A. in economics from Hunter College. Her research interests are credit market anomalies, financial derivatives and international finance. She has taught micro and macro economics, statistics, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions at the undergraduate and graduate level.

Professor John Vong

Dr. John Vong received his PhD and MBA from the University of Bradford and his BA from UCE. He has consulted for and worked in collaboration with the World Bank-IFC, United Nations Development Program, Asian Development Bank and Swiss Development Corporation among others. He was with the HSBC Banking Group for 15 years and held profit responsibility in two countries. He has since advised public sector agencies of 10 Asian governments, four international banks and five multinational corporations. His 20 publications are in the field of banking, finance, IT and international business. He has completed the Public Disputes Program of MIT-Harvard University.

Professor Avner Wolf

Professor Wolf received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in Finance. His research is in the area of Derivative Financial Markets, Investment, Portfolio Management, Fixed Income and Security Market Microstructure. While working on his dissertation, Professor Wolf served as a staff economist in COMEX. Among his many duties there, he designed the futures gold and silver option.

Professor Wolf was a Chairman of the Department of Economics and Finance, the largest department at Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business, for the past 12 years. He is now the Executive Director of International Programs. He initiated and launched the international programs at Baruch College. Under his leadership, Baruch College has successfully launched Executive Master of Science programs in Finance, Marketing and Human Resource Management in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Baruch College is now in the process of starting these programs in Shanghai and Paris.

Professor Wolf has published numerous papers in academic as well as in professional journals and worked with Financial Institutions world wide on a variety of projects on derivatives. He has co-authored the book entitled The handbook of Interest Rate Risk Management, which is used intensively by professionals.

Professor Joseph Yagil

Professor Joseph Yagil received his Ph.D in Finance from the University of Toronto, Canada. His teaching and research interests include financial management, investment analysis, derivative products and behavioral finance. He published more than fourty journal articles, and was a visiting professor of finance at several universities including Columbia, NYU and Rutgers. He also provides consulting for business firms and organizations.

Professor Yan Feng

Yan Feng is a professor of Economics Department at Hunter College and Baruch college international executive program. She has taught corporate finance, statistics, econometrics, options, and macroeconomics at both undergraduate and graduate level. Her research interests include financial derivatives, fixed income and security market microstructure.

Visiting Professor Lawrence Zicklin

Mr. Zicklin received his B.B.A. from Baruch College as a major in accounting and his MBA from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Zicklin endowed the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College and helped design and endow the Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School where he continues to be actively involved

Mr. Zicklin started his professional career as institutional sales at Merrill Lynch in 1959. He joined Neuberger Berman as a Partner in 1969 and served this company as the Chairman of its Executive Committee until Neuberger Berman became a public company in 1999, and was Chairman of the Board till 2003. Also, Mr. Zicklin is Director of both BZL BIOLOGICS, since 1997 to the present and LIQUIDNET INC. from 1999 to present.

As an educator, Mr. Zicklin started as an Adjunct professor at Stern School of New York University from 1989 to 1999 and continued as a Clinical professor at Stern School since 1999 to present. He received an excellence in teaching award in 1997 as an Adjunct Professor and a second excellence in teaching award in 2003 as a Clinical Professor. Meanwhile, Mr. Zicklin is Senior Fellow at the Wharton School—University of Pennsylvania.