Biography

David McLean is the William G. Droms Professor of Finance and Finance Area Chair at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. His research spans asset pricing, behavioral finance, and corporate finance, with particular attention to stock return predictability, investor behavior, and the interplay between financial markets and corporate decision-making.

His work appears in the field's leading journals — among them the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis — and has earned numerous honors, including two of finance's most prestigious paper awards: the Amundi Smith Breeden Award for the best paper in the Journal of Finance and the Jensen Prize for the best paper in the Journal of Financial Economics.

McLean has served as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, the Journal of Empirical Finance, and other journals. He has held visiting appointments at MIT, Aalto University, ESCP Paris, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the Development Bank of Japan.​ He is the author of The Case for Shareholder Capitalism: How the Pursuit of Profit Benefits All.