Ron Masulis is the Scientia Professor of Finance and AGSM Scholar at the UNSW Business School, University of New South Wales. Ron received his MBA and PhD from the University of Chicago.
His published research spans financial institutions, market microstructure, international finance, venture capital, law and economics and corporate governance topics such as mergers and acquisitions, boards of directors, executive compensation, ownership structure and business groups. Among financial economists worldwide, he has one of the highest sustained rates of top tier publications and frequency of citations across a range of top finance journals and the Journal of Accounting and Economics and Journal of Law and Economics.
Ron has won a number of top research awards, including five Journal of Financial Economics All Star Paper Awards. He is the President-Elect of the Financial Management Association for 2020. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Finance Association, Western Finance Association and Financial Intermediation Research Society. Ron is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and other finance journals and has been an associate editor of all 4 leading journals in the field of Finance
Ron was a tenured professor at UCLA, Southern Methodist University and Vanderbilt University. He was a visiting professor at Cambridge University, NYU, NUS, Hong Kong University, CUHK, HKUST, London Business School, Dartmouth College, INSEAD, Georgia State and a visiting scholar at Indiana University and the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Ron is a research associate at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and senior academic fellow at the Asia Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER) and a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.