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The Robert T. LeClair Finance Department Seminar Series extends the curriculum by inviting leading scholars to speak with VSB students on leading issues within the finance industry. Past topics have included responsible investing and investment decision-making; the costs and benefits of Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) for university endowments; and the pitfalls of central clearing in the derivatives markets. 

FALL 2025 SEMINAR SERIES

Seminars are held on Fridays at 1:45 p.m. in Bartley 2010.

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES

Holger M. Mueller is the Nomura Professor of Finance at New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is also a research associate at NBER, a research fellow at CEPR, and a research associate at ECGi. His research interests include Corporate Finance, Labor Economics, Macroeconomics, and Household Finance.

Professor Mueller teaches Corporate Finance in the M.B.A., Executive M.B.A., and Ph.D. programs, and received multiple Executive M.B.A. awards for excellence in teaching. His research has been published in many leading journals, including Econometrica, American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics. 

Janet Gao鈥痠s the Provost Distinguished Associate Professor and Lapeyre Family Associate Professor in Finance at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University. She serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Intermediation, and Journal of Banking and Finance. 

Her research focuses on the area of empirical corporate finance. Specifically, she is interested in topics related to Financial Intermediation, Labor and Finance, and firms' supply-chain relationships. My research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review.  She holds a Ph.D. degree in Finance from Cornell University, and graduated from Peking University with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in Economics and Mathematics.

Matthew Ringgenberg is a Professor of Finance at the University of Utah. His research focuses on the role of institutional investors in financial markets. Specifically, he has examined how the actions of short-sellers, hedge funds, mutual funds, and exchange traded funds interact with various frictions to affect real economic activity and the formation of asset prices. His research has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies and has been cited in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Economist, and The New Yorker. He is a cofounder and President of the Four Corners Center for Research on Index Investments, which aims to foster and advance research in the area of index investments by developing strong ties with industry practitioners to facilitate the transfer of knowledge and to provide collaboration.

Prior to joining the University of Utah, he was an Assistant Professor of Finance at Washington University in St. Louis and before his academic career, he worked as a consultant for Charles River Associates in Chicago. He earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in Finance and Economics from the University of Wisconsin in 2003, a M.S. in Economics from the University of North Carolina in 2009, and a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of North Carolina in 2011.

Murillo Campello is an Eminent Scholar in Finance at the University of Florida. He is the Managing Editor of The Journal of Financial Intermediation. A former chaired professor at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, he is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. 

Professor Campello is an internationally recognized scholar of Financial Economics. Campello鈥檚 papers have been cited by prominent policy authorities, such as the Federal Reserve chairman, mentioned in Congressional hearings, described in the 鈥淓conomic Report of the President,鈥� and used to advise the U.S. Supreme Court. He earned his PhD in Finance from the University of Illinois, an MS in Business Administration from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and a BS in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.