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New Appointments Strengthen Research and Teaching Activities at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management

September 7, 2016

Toron­to, ON – New fac­ul­ty have been appoint­ed to the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment for the start of the 2016/17 aca­d­e­m­ic year. The appoint­ments help to strength the school’s research activ­i­ties as well its teach­ing capa­bil­i­ties across its pro­grams.

Claire Celerier joins the Rot­man School as an assis­tant pro­fes­sor of finance from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Zurich where she was an assis­tant pro­fes­sor in the Depart­ment of Bank­ing and Finance. Her research and teach­ing inter­ests include house­hold finance, bank­ing, and empir­i­cal cor­po­rate finance. She holds a PhD from the Toulouse School of Eco­nom­ics.

Alexan­dre Corhay is an assis­tant pro­fes­sor of finance. He comes to the Rot­man School after com­plet­ing a PhD in finance at the Uni­ver­si­ty of British Columbia’s Saud­er School of Busi­ness. His research inter­ests include asset pric­ing and macro­eco­nom­ics.

Dae­hyun Kim joins the Rot­man School as an assis­tant pro­fes­sor of account­ing. His broad research inter­est is cor­po­rate gov­er­nance, with a spe­cif­ic focus on boards of direc­tors, and man­age­r­i­al account­ing. He received his PhD from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at Austin.

There have been four appoint­ments to the teach­ing stream fac­ul­ty.

Nouman Ashraf has been appoint­ed assis­tant pro­fes­sor, teach­ing stream, with­in the orga­ni­za­tion­al behav­ior and human resources man­age­ment area. He joined the Rot­man School in 2009 as a Research Fel­low with the Desau­tels Cen­tre for Inte­gra­tive Think­ing after hold­ing senior roles at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to. He is the Aca­d­e­m­ic Direc­tor of var­i­ous lead­er­ship pro­grams with Rot­man Exec­u­tive Pro­grams.

Matt Bam­ber, joins the Rot­man School as an assis­tant pro­fes­sor, teach­ing stream, in the account­ing area. Pre­vi­ous­ly, he was a lec­tur­er in account­ing and finance at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bris­tol.

Cather­ine Bar­rette is an assis­tant pro­fes­sor, teach­ing stream, in the account­ing area. Pre­vi­ous­ly she was a facil­i­ta­tor and lec­tur­er at the Char­tered Accoun­tant School of Busi­ness and McGill Uni­ver­si­ty.

Craig Geof­frey, a grad­u­ate of the Rot­man MBA pro­gram, joins the School as an assis­tant pro­fes­sor, teach­ing stream, in the finance area. Pre­vi­ous­ly he was a lec­tur­er at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Waterloo’s School of Account­ing and Finance. He is com­plet­ing a DBA from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Man­ches­ter.

Addi­tion­al­ly, four fac­ul­ty mem­bers appoint­ed to the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Scar­bor­ough and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Mis­sis­sauga have received cross-appoint­ments at the Rot­man School.

San­dro Ambuehl joins the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Scar­bor­ough as an assis­tant pro­fes­sor of busi­ness Eco­nom­ics with a cross-appoint­ment to the Rot­man School. He recent­ly com­plet­ed a PhD in Eco­nom­ics at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty. His research inter­ests include behav­iour­al and exper­i­men­tal eco­nom­ics along with micro­eco­nom­ic the­o­ry.

Ruben Gae­tani is an assis­tant pro­fes­sor of strate­gic man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Mis­sis­sauga with a cross-appoint­ment to the Rot­man School. His research areas include the eco­nom­ics of inno­va­tion, eco­nom­ic geog­ra­phy, macro­eco­nom­ics and eco­nom­ic growth. He received a PhD from North­west­ern Uni­ver­si­ty.

Pamela Med­i­na Quispe is an assis­tant pro­fes­sor of busi­ness eco­nom­ics at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to with a cross-appoint­ment to the Rot­man School.  Her research inter­ests include inter­na­tion­al trade, indus­tri­al orga­ni­za­tion and devel­op­ment eco­nom­ics. She received a PhD from Duke Uni­ver­si­ty.

Christo­pher Small is an assis­tant pro­fes­sor of account­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Mis­sis­sauga with a cross-appoint­ment to the Rot­man School. His research inter­ests include empir­i­cal and archival finan­cial account­ing, cap­i­tal mar­kets and cor­po­rate gov­er­nance. He received a PhD from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa.

The Rot­man School of Man­age­ment is locat­ed in the heart of Canada’s com­mer­cial and cul­tur­al cap­i­tal and is part of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, one of the world’s top 20 research uni­ver­si­ties. The Rot­man School fos­ters a new way to think that enables our grad­u­ates to tack­le today’s glob­al busi­ness and soci­etal chal­lenges. For more infor­ma­tion, vis­it www.rotman.utoronto.ca.

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Ken McGuf­fin
Man­ag­er, Media Rela­tions
Rot­man School of Man­age­ment
Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to
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