Alex Triantis is a Professor of Finance at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1988. Prior to joining University of Maryland’s faculty in 1996, he was a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin. He served as Chair of the Smith School’s Finance Department from 2006-2011.
 
Professor Triantis 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. His research has been featured in Business Week, CFO magazine, Financial Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and numerous other periodicals. He is currently on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, and 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 corporate finance and valuation, including issues related to capital investment decision making, financing strategies, risk management, real options analysis, derivatives pricing, and project finance. Clients have included multinational corporations and organizations such as Airbus Industrie, BHP Billiton, CSX, Dupont, Ernst & Young, Hyatt, Jefferies and Company, Lockheed Martin, Marriott International, Morgan Stanley, Northrop Grumman, PricewaterhouseCoopers, U.S. Dept. of Energy, and the World Bank. He is a frequent speaker at domestic and international conferences and executive forums. He has received numerous awards and citations for teaching excellence, including being a two-time recipient of Smith School’s top award (Krowe Award), and being named by Business Week as an Outstanding Professor at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Maryland.