Philip Howard

I am an assistant professor of finance at Wake Forest University's School of Business and the Joseph M. Bryan Fellow in Banking and Finance. I am also a senior research associate at the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, where I am the lead quantitative analyst for the Active Management Research Alliance. My research spans international finance, monetary policy and alternative investments. My work has been presented at top conferences, including the AEA, AFA, CICF, FMA, NBER and WFA and published in the American Economic Review and the Review of Financial Studies. Recently my work has been featured in Bloomberg, Risk.net and Yahoo! Finance and awarded the 2019-2020 Unigestion Alternative Risk Premia research academy project. At Wake Forest I teach Corporate Finance, Quantitative Finance and International Finance in the undergraduate finance program and Financial Analytics in the Masters in Business Analytics program. I am the 2018-2019 recipient of the T.B. Rose Fellowship in Business Teaching Award for pedagogical innovation. I received a PhD in finance from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I earned a master's degree in Statistics and Operations Research and a bachelor's of science degree with highest honors in Mathematical Decision Sciences from the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Experience

School of Business, Wake Forest University

Assistant Professor of Finance (2018-Present)

Visiting Instructor of Finance (2016-2018)

Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise

Senior Research Associate (2016-Present)

Active Management Research Alliance

Lead Quantitative Analyst (2018-Present)

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2010-2016 Ph.D., Finance at Kenan-Flagler Business School

2008-2010 M.S., Statistics and Operations Research

2004-2008 B.S., Mathematical Decision Sciences

Honors & Awards

2021-2023 Joseph M. Bryan Fellowship in Banking and Finance

2021 Wake Forest University's School of Business Summer Research Award

2020 FMA Best Paper Award Semifinalist

2019-2020 Unigestion Alternative Risk Premia Research Award

2018-2019 T.B. Rose Fellowship in Business Teaching Award

2013 American Finance Association Doctoral Student Travel Grant

2008 Highest Honors, B.S. Mathematical Decision Sciences

2004-2008 UNC Chapel Hill’s Dean’s List

2008 1st Place, Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Undergraduate Venture Capitalist Investment Competition

2006 UNC-Chapel Hill’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship