Dr. Cara Marshall is a tenured Lecturer at Queens College, within the City University of New York.  She is also currently the Director of the Graduate Program in Risk Management.  

She is also currently designing and will be teaching the Financial Risk Management graduate course within the School of Professional Studies at Wake Forest University. 

Cara has two decades of experience designing and delivering academic and industry training to finance professionals and students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. 

Dr. Marshall holds a Ph.D. in Financial Economics from Fordham University, an MBA focused on Quantitative Analysis from St. John’s University, and a B.S. in Marketing and Computer Information Science from Oswego State University.

Dr. Marshall is a published author.  Her book, (with Tanya Beder): Financial Engineering: The Evolution of a Profession was published by Wiley-Blackwell.  She has publications in the following peer-reviewed journals: Applied Economics, Journal of Financial and Economic Practice, and Global Finance Journal, among others.  See her most recent citation index at Google Scholars. 

Cara also works as a consultant, training employees at investment banks, hedge funds, commercial banks, and government agencies across the U.S., as well as in Toronto, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and other locations around the world.