Faculty

Dr. Weidong Tian joined the Belk College faculty in 2008 and is currently a professor of finance and distinguished professor of risk management and insurance. Prior to coming to UNC Charlotte, Dr. Tian served as a faculty member at the University of Waterloo and a visiting scholar at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. […]

Dr. Scott Tonidandel is a professor of management in the Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte and also serves as the program director for the Organizational Science Ph.D. program. He received his Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology from Rice University.  His research focuses on people analytics and the interface of big data and the organizational sciences. […]

Dr. Jennifer Troyer is the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs for UNC Charlotte. Dr. Troyer is also Professor of Economics in the Belk College of Business. Since joining the University over 20 years ago, Dr. Troyer has served as Dean of the Belk College, Chair of the Department of Economics, Associate Dean for […]

Alice Tseng joined the Belk College faculty in 1988. She currently teaches international finance, managerial economics, mathematical economics and intermediate microeconomics. Dr. Tseng’s research expertise includes energy and health economics, forward market intervention, speculation and exchange rate volatility. She was a 2013 finalist for the Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence and a recipient […]

Alan Turovlin joined the Belk College faculty in 2021. Dr. Turovlin received his DBA from UNC Charlotte. As a long-time practitioner (30+ years) in the corporate setting and as a C-level executive, his knowledge of project, program, and business management is firsthand and vast. He held the positions of Chief Transformation Officer for Canon Europe, […]

Kelly Vosters joined the Belk College of Business in August 2016, after receiving her Ph.D. in economics from Michigan State University. Her research interests lie in the areas of labor economics, applied econometrics and the economics of education. One of her specific research focuses is intergenerational mobility, examining the extent to which economic status is […]

Dr. Sebastian Wai joined the economics department at UNC Charlotte in August 2024. He completed his Ph.D. in economics at Purdue University in 2017. Before coming to Charlotte, he taught economics and business analytics at Indiana University and the University of South Dakota. His teaching specialties include econometrics, industrial organization, and managerial economics. Dr. Wai’s […]

Brittani Washington joined the Belk College of Business faculty in 2021. Dr. Washington received her D.Sc. in Information Technology at Towson University (TU). During her time at TU she sparked up many conversations throughout the United States surrounding the topic of Web Accessibility in the Non-Profit sector, and developed free resources for Non-Profit organizations to […]

Justin W. Webb is the Belk Distinguished Professor of Business Innovation in the Belk College of Business at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research interests include understanding the contextual and individual influences on the entrepreneurship process, market-based solutions to poverty in base-of-the-pyramid markets, entrepreneurship within the informal economy, and family firm dynamics. […]