About Me

Nancy Ran Tao, Ph. D., is  Associate Professor of Finance at Lake Forest College.  She is also a research associate at the Claremont Institute for Economic Policy Studies.  Her areas of specialization include Financial Economics, Financial Markets and Institutions, International Macroeconomics and Finance, Applied Econometrics, and Computational Economics.

Her past teaching and research positions include Professor of Economics at the College of Business and Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, Clinical Assistant Professor at Claremont Graduate University, Lecturer at California State University, Long Beach, and Lecturer at Claremont McKenna College.  Dr. Tao received Ph. D. in Economics from Claremont Graduate University and M.Sc. in Operational Research from Lancaster University, United Kingdom.