Rebel Cole

Professor of Finance at Florida Atlantic University

Speaker

Dr. Cole is the Lynn Eminent Scholar Chaired Professor of Finance in the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL. Previously, he has taught at DePaul University in Chicago, the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He received his PhD in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina in 1988, after which he spent ten years working as a financial economist in the Federal Reserve System. Dr. Cole is a special advisor to the Asian Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other non-governmental organizations, providing training and technical assistance to central banks around the world in more than 60 countries. Dr. Cole has published peer-reviewed articles in many of top academic finance journals (including The Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Review of Finance) and his research has been featured in the Financial Times, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. According to Google Scholar, his research has been cited more than 14,500 times. His primary areas of research are banking, commercial real estate, corporate governance, and entrepreneurial finance.