Lorne N. Switzer is a Professor of Finance and the Van Berkom Endowed Chair in Small Cap Equities at the John Molson School of Business (JMSB) at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. At the JMSB he has served as Associate Dean Research, Associate Director of the Institute for Governance of Public and Private Organizations, Chair of the Finance Department, as well as the Director of the MSc and PhD Programs. He has published several academic articles in leading journals and books and serves on the Editorial Boards of European Financial Management, La Review Financier, and Risk and Decision Analysis. He has won several research awards for his work, including the Best Paper Award at the McMaster World Congress of Corporate Governance and the Bank of Canada Prize for Best Paper in the field of empirical research on Canadian Financial Markets at the Northern Finance Association Meetings, and Best Paper in the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 2021. He has lectured widely abroad, including at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, Tianjin University in the People's Republic of China, and IMT Ghaziabad, India.
Dr. Switzer has done consulting work for many business firms and government organizations including the Bourse de Montréal., Caisse de Dépot et Placement du Québec, AMI Partners, Inc., Bank Credit Analysts Research Group, the CD Howe Institute, Keugler Kandestin LLC, Schlesinger, Newman, and Goldman, the Government of Canada,and the Gouvernement du Québec. He is a native of Calgary, Alberta, and is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He obtained his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982.
Education
PhD (University of Pennsylvania)
Areas of expertise
- Investments and Portfolio Management
- Corporate Governance
- Small-Cap Equities
- FinTech
- International Finance
- International Transfer Pricing
- Capital Markets
- Derivative Markets
- Hedge Funds and Alternative Investments
- Market Microstructure
- Commercial Banking and Financial Institutions
- Real Estate Finance
- Financial Modeling
- Economics of Technological Change
