International Stock Market Expert Huang Named to Meyer Chair

Roger D. Huang relinquished a chaired professorship at Vanderbilt University to accept Notre Dame's Kenneth R. Meyer Chair in Global Investment Management. A leading authority on all aspects of international financial markets, Huang also has been appointed chair of the Mendoza College's finance and business economics department.

Widely published in the leading finance journals, Huang has received research grants and fellowships from the New York Stock Exchange, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Nasdaq and a number of other important financial institutions. He is equally respected in the classroom, having won seven teaching awards at Vanderbilt.

Huang taught and conducted research at Vanderbilt for more than a decade, the last two years as the Brownlee O. Currey Professor of Finance. He earned master's and doctoral degrees in finance from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 1978 and 1980.

The Meyer Chair is just one component of a program funded by a gift from Kenneth R. Meyer, chief executive officer of Lincoln Capital Management Company in Chicago, and a 1966 graduate of the University.

The benefaction also supports a special cluster of international finance courses in the MBA program, graduate student scholarships and internships. All components of the program are aimed at attracting and graduating Mendoza MBAs who will make significant contributions in the investment field.

Huang is the third significant addition to the finance department at Notre Dame in the past two years. Paul Schultz, co-author of a study that led to a $1-billion class-action lawsuit against Nasdaq and significant regulatory changes in the stock market, accepted the John W. and Maude Clarke Chair in Finance in 1998. Tim Loughran, a widely quoted expert on initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions and the January effect, joined the Notre Dame faculty last year.