Monday, August 27, 2012
Three graduate programs in the Belk College of Business have new faculty advisors for the 2012-13 academic year.
- Dr. Chris Kirby, professor of finance and economics, is the new director for the Ph.D. in Business Administration, Finance major. Dr. Kirby joined the Belk College faculty of the in 2011. Before coming to UNC Charlotte, he held tenured appointments in economics at Clemson University and in finance at the University of Texas at Dallas. Professor Kirby's research interests include asset pricing, empirical finance, and financial econometrics, with a particular emphasis on understanding the implications of time-varying reward and risk characteristics in financial markets. He holds a Ph.D. from Duke University.
- Dr. Weidong Tian, professor of finance and distinguished professor of risk management and insurance, is the new director of the M.S. in Mathematical Finance program. Dr. Tian joined the Belk College faculty in 2008. Prior to coming to UNC Charlotte, he was an associate professor at the University ofWaterloo. Dr. Tian's primary research interests are asset pricing, derivative, and risk management. He was a visiting scholar at the Sloan School of Business at MIT for the Fall 2010 semester. Dr. Tian holds a Ph.D. from McGill University.
- Dr. Dustin Read, clinical assistant professor of finance and director of the UNC Charlotte Center for Real Estate, is the director of the M.S. in Real Estate, which enrolled its first class of students this semester. Dr. Read joined the Belk College of Business in 2007 as associate director of the Center for Real Estate; he was appointed director in 2011. He received his Ph.D. in Public Policy from the UNC Charlotte and his J.D. from the University of Missouri at Columbia. Dr. Read’s teaching and research activities primarily focus on real estate development and land use regulations.