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Milad Baghersad earned his Ph.D. in Business Information Technology from the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. Prior to joining Florida Atlantic University, Professor Baghersad was a visiting faculty member at Cleveland State University. His primary research interests include supply chain disruptions and disaster operations management. Professor Baghersad has published papers in top-tier, peer-reviewed journals like Decision Sciences Journal, International Journal of Production Economics, and Transportation Research Part E. Professor Baghersad is joining the Department of Information Technology and Operations Management (ITOM) at FAU Business.

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Lakshman Chandrashekhar earned his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2003. He brings a wealth of experience from having taught all over the world in locales such as China, Finland, France, India and across the United States. Professor Chandrashekhar has also published extensively. He's written three books and more than thirty refereed journal articles. Professor Chandrashekhar is joining the International Business faculty in the Department of Management Programs at the Florida Atlantic University College of Business.

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Mary Anastasia O'Grady writes "The Americas," a weekly column on politics, economics and business in Latin America and Canada that appears every Monday in The Wall Street Journal. Ms. O'Grady joined The Wall Street Journal in August 1995 and became a senior editorial page writer in December 1999. She was appointed an editorial board member in November 2005. She is also a member of the board of directors of the Indianapolis­-based Liberty Fund.

In 2012 Ms. O’Grady won the Walter Judd Freedom Award from The Fund for American Studies. In 2009 Ms. O'Grady received the Thomas Jefferson Award from The Association of Private Enterprise Education. In 2005 Ms. O'Grady won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism awarded by the International Policy Network for her articles on the World Bank, the underground economy in Brazil and the bad economic advice the U.S. often gives to Latin American countries. In 1997 Ms. O'Grady won the Inter American Press Association's Daily Gleaner Award for editorial commentary.

Ms. O'Grady received a bachelor's degree in English from Assumption College and an M.B.A. in financial management from Pace University.

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Terry L. Anderson has been a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1998 and is currently the John and Jean DeNault Senior Fellow. He is the past president of the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, MT, and a Professor Emeritus at Montana State University where he won many teaching awards during his 25 year career.

Dr. Anderson is one of the founders of “free market environmentalism,” the idea of using markets and property rights to help solve environmental problems. In 2015 the third edition of his book by that title was published, co-authored with Don Leal. Terry is author or editor of 39 books, including most recently, Unlocking the Wealth of Indian Nations (2016), exploring the institutional underpinnings of American Indian reservation economies.

In addition to publishing books and articles in academic journals, Terry Anderson speaks around the world and is often featured in the popular press, including frequent editorials in the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Anderson received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1972 and has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University, Cornell University, Basel University, Clemson University, and he was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Canterbury.

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Carol Alexander is Professor of Finance at Sussex and  Co-Editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance. Prior academic appointments were as Chair of Financial Risk Management at the ICMA Centre in the Henley Business School at Reading (1999 – 2012) and lecturer in Mathematics and Economics at the University of Sussex (1985 - 1998). She holds degrees from the University of Sussex (BSc First Class, Mathematics with Experimental Psychology; PhD Algebraic Number Theory) and the London School of Economics (MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics). She also has an Honorary Professorship at the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, Romania.

Carol has also held several positions in financial institutions: Fixed Income Trader at UBS/Phillips and Drew (UK); Academic Director of Algorithmics (Canada); Director of Nikko Global Holdings and Head of Market Risk Modeling (UK); Risk Research Advisor, SAS (USA). She also acts as an expert witness and consultant in financial modeling. From 2010 – 2012 Carol was Chair of the Board of PRMIA (Professional Risk Manager's International Association).

She publishes widely on a broad range of topics, including: volatility theory; option pricing and hedging; trading volatility; hedging with futures; alternative investments; random orthogonal matrix simulation; game theory and real options. She has written and edited numerous books in mathematics and finance and published extensively in top-ranked international journals. Her four-volume textbook on Market Risk Analysis (Wileys, 2008) is the definitive guide to the subject. Her latest interests focus on Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies and her forthcoming book (with Douglas Cumming, FAU) is another Wiley text on Corruption and Fraud in Financial Markets.

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Andrew S. Gallan, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Marketing and the Director of the FAU Center for Services Marketing & Management. His almost 20 years of business experience in sales, sales management, and marketing, which, combined with his academic qualifications, enable him to have a distinct perspective on research and teaching. Andrew's areas of research interest include service innovation, service design, and customer/patient experience, almost exclusively conducted in the health care industry. Andrew is also a highly respected and successful teacher and presenter who specializes in Customer Relationship Management, Service Marketing and Management, and Customer Experience topics.

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Robin Sickles is the Reginald Henry Hargrove Professor of Economics, a Joint Professor at the Department of Statistics at Rice, and an Adjunct Professor at the Baylor College of Medicine. He is also a Research Associate at the Ovideo (Spain) Efficiency Group and a Member of Executive Committee for the International Finance and Banking Society. Professor Sickles is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Productivity Analysis, and has served as associate editor of Journal of Applied Econometrics, Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Econometrics, andEmpirical Economics. His research interests center around applied economics and empirical measurement of productivity.

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Michael Crain, FAU Instructor & Director of the Center for Forensic Accounting @FAUbusiness, talks about the Forensic Accounting program's recent #2 ranking by BestColleges.com for Best Online Master's in Forensic Accounting. Dr. Crain also discusses some of their latest applied research on the the cost of capital, and the center's participation in an annual conference with the United States Department of Treasury. Follow Forensic Accounting on Twitter at @FAUForensic & the FAU Center for Forensic Accounting at @FAUForensicCtr.

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Rajeev Sawant, Ph.D. joins FAU as an experienced assistant professor, coming to us from Baruch College at the City University of New York. He earned his Ph.D. from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. With expertise in various aspects of international business and foreign direct investment, his articles have appeared in such academic journals as the Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of Business Research. His book, “Infrastructure Investing: Managing Risks & Rewards for Pensions, Insurance Companies & Endowments,” was published by Wiley in 2010. Prior to earning his Ph.D., he served in the Indian Armed Forces, rising to the rank of Company Commander. He also has experience as an entrepreneur, having served as founder and CEO of a telecomm company.

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Melanie Lorenz, Ph.D. is an experienced assistant professor. A native of Germany, she has worked in banking and consulting. She then decided to become an academic, and earned her Ph.D. in marketing from the University of Alabama in 2016. She has been an assistant professor at the University of Toledo. Her focus is in international business and marketing; her research has been published in the Journal of World Business, International Marketing Review, and Academy of Management Learning and Education, among others.

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