Featuring Maureen O'Hara

Maureen O’Hara is Purcell Professor of Finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. A citizen of both Ireland and the U.S., she received her doctorate from Northwestern University and Honorary Doctorates from Facultés Universitaires Catholiques à Mons (FUCAM), Universität Bern, and University College Dublin. Professor O'Hara is an expert on market microstructure, and she publishes widely in banking and financial intermediaries, law and finance, and experimental economics. She is the author of numerous journal articles as well as the books Market Microstructure Theory (Blackwell: 1995), and High Frequency Trading: New Realities for Traders, Markets, and Regulators (Risk Books: 2013). Her most recent book, Something for Nothing: Arbitrage and Ethics on Wall Street, was published in 2016 by Norton Books.

A past President of the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, and the Financial Management Association, she was Executive Editor of the Review of Financial Studies. Professor O’Hara has served on a variety of corporate boards including NewStar Financial, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (TIAA), and Investment Technology Group, Inc. (ITG), where she was Chairman of the Board. She was named to Institutional Investors Trading Technology Top 40 and she is currently an Advisor to Symbiont, a company focusing on blockchain and smart securities, and to Ava Labs, Inc., a cryptocurrency blockchain company. A member of the CFTC-SEC Emerging Regulatory Issues Task Force (the “flash crash” committee), she has also served on the Global Advisory Board of the Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the Advisory Board of the Office of Financial Research, U.S. Treasury, and the SEC Equity Market Structure Advisory Committee. She has consulted for a number of companies and organizations, including Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Credit Suisse, Facebook, the International Securities Exchange, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, the New York Stock Exchange, and the World Federation of Exchanges.

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