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Dr. Robert C. Charles is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in North Carolina, South Carolina and Maryland and holds a Juris Doctorate from the Charlotte School of Law. He spent much of his early career working in local and regional CPA firms across the Carolinas. His public accounting experience includes roles with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Grant […]

Ming Chen is an Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Belk College of Business at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Chen’s research interests focus on quantitative marketing and retailing. She is interested in applying statistical models and machine learning methods to examine the influences of consumers’ visual attention on their subsequent behaviors […]

Professor Ethan Chiang’s research focuses on empirical asset pricing, portfolio management and performance evaluation, fixed income securities, and financial econometrics. He has published scholarly articles in leading financial economics and asset pricing journals, such as Journal of Finance, Review of Asset Pricing Studies, and Journal of Empirical Finance. His research has been recognized with best […]

Yongqiang Chu is the Director of the Childress Klein Center for Real Estate and Childress Klein Distinguished Professor of Real Estate and Urban Economics and Professor of Finance at the UNC Charlotte Belk College of Business. Chu conducts research in real estate, corporate finance, and banking. His research has appeared in many top finance, real […]

Steven Clark joined the UNC Charlotte faculty in 2002 from the University of Virginia where he was a lecturer in the Department of Economics. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Alberta. His areas of expertise include securities and derivatives markets, financial risk management, corporate finance, […]

Suzanne is focused and energetic Marketing Instructor and a Digital Marketing Strategist leader with broad design and deployment expertise in the financial services industry. Her background includes 20+ years at major financial institutions including Bank of America, CitizensBank and TIAABank. She brings these experiences to the classroom to engage and provide practical application to concepts […]

John Connaughton joined the UNC Charlotte faculty in 1978. He is the director of the UNC Charlotte Economic Forecast, which is recognized as the leading source of economic information for North Carolina. Dr. Connaughton has authored economic impact studies that have received widespread attention. His work is frequently quoted in both local and national publications, […]

Heather Cummens is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Business Information Systems and Operations Management (BISOM) at UNC Charlotte’s Belk College of Business. She also serves as a Business and Technical Application Analyst at UNC Charlotte. Cummens joined BISOM in 2020 and brings expertise in project management, website development, editing, accessibility, business computing and […]