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Rohan Williamson

Title

Associate Professor
Stallkamp Research Fellow

Department

MCDONOUGH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
General profile

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Phone

202-687-2284

Location

587 Hariri Building

Bio

Rohan Williamson is an Associate Professor of Finance and the Stallkamp Faculty Research Fellow at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He received his PhD from Ohio State University. Professor Williamson specializes in international finance, corporate governance, corporate investment decisions, and risk management. He is currently conducting research in the areas of corporate investment decisions, risk management, bank risk-taking, corporate liquidity and corporate governance. Professor Williamson’s research has appeared in many finance journals including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies. He has also written several book chapters and presented his work at many conferences and seminars and his works have appeared in other non-academic publications such as the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance and the National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series. Professor Williamson was a co-recipient of the 1999 Michael Jensen Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the areas of Corporate Finance and Organizations and the 2003 William Sharpe Best Paper Award in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He received the Georgetown University Junior Faculty Research Fellowship in 1999, the McDonough School of Business Research Award in 2003, and a Dean’s Research Fellow since 2003. He is also a member of the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of International Business Studies. He has received the Ohio State University Pace Setters Award and is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society.

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Education

  • Ph.D. (1997) Ohio State University, Finance
  • M.A. (1995) The Ohio State University, Finance
  • M.B.A. (1989) Clark-Atlanta University, Finance
  • B.M.E. (1985) University of Dayton, Mechanical Engineering
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