Sheridan Titman

Sheridan Titman is a professor of finance at The University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Services at the McCombs School of Business, and is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He holds a B.S. degree from the University of Colorado and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.

Titman taught at UCLA for over ten years where, in addition to his teaching and research activities, he served as the chair for the department of finance and as the vice chairman of the UCLA management school faculty. Between 1992 and 1994, he was one of the founding professors of the School of Business and Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology where he was the vice chairman of the faculty and the chairman of the faculty appointments committee. From 1994 to 1997, he served as the John J. Collins, S.J. Chair in Finance at Boston College. In the 1988-89, academic year Titman worked in Washington D.C. as the special assistant to the Treasury Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy.

Titman’s academic publications include both theoretical and empirical articles on asset pricing, corporate finance, and real estate, and have been widely recognized for their excellence. Sheridan has won the Smith-Breeden Prize for the best finance research paper published in the Journal of Finance, the GSAM best paper award for the Review of Finance and was a recipient of the Batterymarch Fellowship. Titman has served on the editorial boards of leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance and the Review of Financial Studies. He is the incoming Vice-President of the American Finance Association for 2011 and President for 2012, as well as the past President and Director of the Western Finance Association and a former Director of the Asia Pacific Finance Association. He has also co-authored two leading finance textbooks, Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy and Valuation: The Art and Science of Corporate Investment Decisions.