Dr. Reena Aggarwal

Robert E. McDonough Professor of Finance & Director, Georgetown Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business

Speaker

Dr. Aggarwal specializes in financial markets and regulation; IPOs; ETFs; corporate governance and ESG; institutional investors; short term funding markets; and digital assets. She has had tremendous impact at the intersection of financial markets and policy globally having advised several countries. She has served as Georgetown’s Vice Provost for Faculty,Interim Dean and Deputy Dean of the McDonough School of Business; Visiting Professor at MIT; FINRA Academic Fellow; Academic Fellow at the U.S. SEC; Visiting Scholar at the IMF; World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council; Fulbright Scholar to Brazil; and Distinguished Scholar at the Reserve Bank of India’s CAFRAL. Her research and analysis are regularly cited in Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNBC, and CNN, among others. Dr. Aggarwal serves on the boards of financial services firms.

She is an award-winning teacher and has been voted as the Outstanding Professor by EMBA students; named among “Outstanding Faculty” in the Business Week Guide to the Best Business Schools; and described as the Favorite Professors of the ‘Best & Brightest’ in Poets and Quants. She was honored with the Allan N. Nash Distinguished Doctoral Graduate Award by University of Maryland, the Distinguished Alumnus Award by BITS Pilani, and Georgetown University President’s Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award.