David McLean is Professor of Finance and the William G. Droms Chair at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. His research focuses on capital market imperfections and their implications for asset prices and corporate investment. His research has won several awards, including the Amundi Smith Breeden Award for the best paper in the Journal of Finance, the Jensen Prize for the best paper in the Journal of Financial Economics, and the JFQA Sharpe Award. His research has been covered by The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the New York Times, and Bloomberg.
McLean is the author of The Case for Shareholder Capitalism: How the Pursuit of Profit Benefits All. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and previously served as an associate editor of Management Science, the Journal of Empirical Finance, and other journals. He has taught at DePaul University, the University of Alberta, and MIT and held visiting appointments at Aalto University, ESCP Paris, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was also a Shimomura Fellow at the Development Bank of Japan and a financial economist at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He holds a PhD in finance from Boston College and is a CFA charterholder.