Professor Alexander Triantis

	Alexander J. Triantis, Ph.D. Professor and Department Chair Finance Department Ph.D. , Stanford University Alex Triantis is a Professor of Finance and the Chairman of the Finance Department at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1988 and was a faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management (as a visiting scholar) and the University of Wisconsin prior to joining the faculty at the University of Maryland. He has published numerous articles related to corporate finance and valuation in leading academic journals including Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Management Science, and the Review of Financial Studies, and in practitioner journals such as RISK, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance and Mergers and Acquisitions. He is currently on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, a Senior Editor of Production and Operations Management. He has also served as Editor of Financial Management (1999-2005) and Associate Editor of Management Science. Professor Triantis has consulted and provided executive training in the areas of real options analysis, risk management, derivatives pricing, capital budgeting, and project finance to multinational corporations and organizations such as Airbus Industry, BHP Billiton, DuPont, Ernst & Young, Hyatt, Jefferies and Company, Lockheed Martin, Marriott International, Northrop Grumman, PricewaterhouseCoopers, U.S. Dept. of Energy, and the World Bank. His research has been featured in Business Week, CFO magazine, Financial Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and numerous other periodicals. He frequently lectures on topics related to real options analysis at domestic and international conferences and executive forums, and was the Keynote Speaker at the 2003 Annual International Real Options Conference. He has received awards and citations for teaching excellence, including the Smith School’s top award (for outstanding teaching over the prior three years) in 2000 and 2003, and being named by Business Week as an Outstanding Professor at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Maryland.

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