MFA News

2022 Annual Meeting: Doctoral Symposium Invitees

Taha Ahsin, Duke University
Ehsan Azarmsa, University of Chicago
Aymeric Bellon, University of Pennsylvania
Abhinav Gupta, NYU Stern
Chaehyun Pyun, University of Georgia


2022 MFA Board Election Results

Newly elected MFA Board Members (with terms beginning March 2022):

Vice-President Elect (2024 Program Chair) (1 year term)
Clemens Sialm, University of Texas at Austin

Academic Directors (3-year term)
Kenneth Ahern, University of Southern California
Erik Lie, University of Iowa

Institutional Director (3-year term)
Gene Amromin, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Treasurer (3-year term)
Stanislava (Stas) Nikolova, University of Nebraska


Zhiguo He, MFA Academic Director, Appointed Executive Editor of RAPS

Congratulations to Zhiguo He, an academic director of MFA, for being appointed as the executive editor of the Review of Asset Pricing Studies! Zhiguo is the Fuji Bank and Heller Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and he has served as an academic director for MFA since 2020.


2021 Annual Meeting: Doctoral Symposium Invitees

Sebastien Hillenbrand, NYU
Edward Kim, Temple University
Max Miller, Wharton
Shaoting Pi, University of Utah
Eyub Yegen, University of Toronto


2021 MFA Board Election Results

Newly elected MFA Board Members (with terms beginning March 2021):

Vice-President Elect (2023 Program Chair) (1 year term)
Renée Adams, University of Oxford

Academic Directors (3-year term)
Kose John, New York University
Xiaoyun Yu, Indiana University

Institutional Director (3-year term)
Martin Fridson, Lehmann Livian Fridson Advisors LLC
Matt Pritsker, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Treasurer (3-year term)
Craig Furfine, Northwestern University


2020 Annual Meeting: Doctoral Tutorial Invitees

Gelly Fu, Erasmus University
Xuelin Li, University of Minnesota
Han Ma, Georgia State University
Jonathan Zandberg, Boston College
Wu Zhu, University of Pennsylvania


2020 Annual Meeting: Graduate Student Travel Grant Recipients

Paul Decaire, University of Pennsylvania
Ha Diep-Nguyen, Indiana University
Rene Marian Flacke, University of Münster
Sung Lee, NYU
Ye Wang, University of Arizona
Hanyi Yi, Rice University
Chao Zi, University of Illinois


2020 MFA Board Election Results

Newly elected MFA Board Members (with terms beginning March 2020):

Vice-President Elect (2022 Program Chair) (1 year term)
Manuel Adelino, Duke University

Academic Directors (3-year term)
Kristine Hankins, University of Kentucky
Zhiguo He, University of Chicago

Institutional Director (3-year term)
Wendy Pirie, CFA Institute

VP-Sponsorship (3-year term)
David Feldman, University of New South Wales