FinanceBuzz Expert Review Board

Title: Senior Lecturer of Economics, Director of the International Political Economy Program at Fordham University

Credentials: Ph.D., Fordham University

Dr. Santangelo is an economist, professor, and author with over two decades of university teaching experience across New York. Since receiving his Ph.D. from Fordham University and extensive training in quantitative and qualitative research and analysis, he's taught courses in Comparative Economic Systems, Corporate Finance, Environmental Economics, Financial Economics, International Economics, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Money and Banking, Public Finance, Sports Economics, and Statistics. He specializes in and centers his research around international economics.

Outside of teaching, Dr. Santangelo has served as a subject-matter expert for many news outlets and publications, including CBS, NBC, Forbes, Fortune, and Fox, and has also spoken at TEDx. In 2020, he published Macroeconomics: Big Things Have Small Beginnings.

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Title: Professor of Finance at Union University

Credentials: Ph.D. in Finance, Syracuse University

Dr. Guan Jun Wang brings nearly twenty years of experience teaching finance and quantitative methods in the United States and internationally. She specializes in quantitative financial economics, with expertise in asset pricing, market volatility, and applied financial modeling. 

Passionate about financial education, she translates rigorous analysis into clear, practical insights for investors and everyday consumers and frequently provides expert commentary on economic markets and a range of consumer finance topics.

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Title: Tenured Full Professor of Public Policy at Southern University and A&M College System

Credentials: Ph.D. in Applied Economics, Mississippi State University

For more than a decade, Professor Luckongo has taught courses on Advanced Statistics, Financial Policy, Macroeconomics, Political Economy, and Public Finance at Southern University and A&M College System. His research, much of which has been published in esteemed journals such as The American Economist and Journal of Financial Research, focuses on public finance and economic access, with special interests in public policy, statistics, and research methods, among many others.

Distinguished scholar and academic, Dr. Lukongo has contributed extensively to honor societies, editorial boards, research journals, and personal finance literature. He has chaired more than 25 dissertations from doctoral candidates and is committed to furthering the education of consumers and scholars alike.

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Title: Professor of Finance at Menlo College

Credentials: Ph.D. in Finance, INSEAD

With over 25 years of experience in academic research and instruction at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels, Dr. Leshchinskii's areas of specialty span finance, economics, and statistics. He currently teaches Advanced Corporate Finance, Behavioral Finance and Economics, Entrepreneurial Finance, Financial Derivatives, Financial Modeling, and Principles of Finance. 

Chief among his academic interests are behavioral finance and entrepreneurial finance, but he also has a background in investment valuation and planning. Recently, Professor Leshchinskii has published research on startup lending and ESG investing.

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Title: Professor of Accounting and Finance, Herbert E. Miller Chair in Financial Accounting in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia

Credentials: Ph.D. in Accounting, University of Arizona; CPA

Dr. Campbell has over 15 years of experience in healthcare accounting, including serving as a health system CFO, and is currently heads the Terry College of Business Department of Finance at the University of Georgia. He's a decorated instructor with undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students and a prolific contributor to academic research. He specializes in the impacts of accounting and tax information on capital markets and has contributed, in research and/or editorial capacities, to The Accounting Review, the Journal of Business, Finance, and Accounting, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, among many others.

At the core of Dr. Campbell's work is the exploration of equity in finance; the analysis of financial reporting, disclosures, and standards; and the analysis of market efficiency and corporate behavior.

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Title: Clinical Professor of Finance at the University of San Diego School of Business

Credentials: MBA, Drexel University; CPM

Daniel Roccato, professor, author, entrepreneur, and frequent media contributor, spent more than two decades in investment banking before transitioning to university-level instruction. He teaches courses in Global Financial Markets, Investments, and Personal Finance. He is highly regarded by his students and serves as a personal finance expert for Fox and other media outlets.

Professor Roccato's areas of specialty include capital markets, consumer finance, corporate finance, and economic policy. He is passionate about distilling complicated financial topics into digestible information and providing advice and insights on financial news and consumer trends.

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Title: Associate Professor of Accounting at Austin Peay State University

Credentials: DBA, Accounting, Statistics, Creighton University

Professor Di Paolo Harrison teaches a variety of accounting courses, including, but not limited to, Data Analytics for Accounting, Financial Accounting, Government and Nonprofit Accounting, and Healthcare Accounting. He is an active academic researcher whose work has been featured in many renowned journals and publications.

Dr. Di Paolo Harrison's research interests center around accounting information systems, financial accounting, healthcare accounting, and governmental accounting. One example of a peer-reviewed paper he's published is "The Influence of Regulatory Change on Hospital Medicare Cost Reporting" for the Journal of Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, American Accounting Association, and Healthcare Financial Management Association.

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Title: Professor of Finance at Yale School of Management

Credentials: Ph.D. in Economics, Princeton University

Professor Spiegel currently teaches Security Analysis and Valuation at the Yale School of Management, but has also taught Corporate Finance, Introductory Finance, Market Microstructure, and Portfolio Management. He has served in numerous editorial and advisory capacities, including as an editor for the Review of Financial Studies, a co-editor and founder of the Journal of Financial Markets, and a former member of the Nasdaq Economic Advisory Board.

He's published extensive research on a wide range of financial topics, having a profound impact on the fields of business, investing, data analysis, and more. Dr. Spiegel also directed a project to produce the Yale SOM-Tobin Center State and Local COVID Restriction Database, the most comprehensive database of COVID-19 orders and restrictions by county ever produced.

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Title: Associate Professor of Accounting at East Texas A&M University

Credentials: DBA, Athabasca University; CPA; MBA

Dr. Opara is an accomplished, widely published academic with a particular interest in the intersection of public policy and accounting. His research focuses include corporate social responsibility, institutional theory, public-private partnerships, and social and environmental accounting. At East Texas A&M University, where he's an Associate Professor. He teaches Accounting for Government and Non-Profit Organizations, Advanced Managerial Accounting, Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting, State and Local Government Taxation, and Taxation of Individuals and Business Entities.

Professor Opara's research has been published in journals such as Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Australian Journal of Public Administration, Crime, Law & Social Change, and Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. Prior to his career in higher education, he served the Alberta Government Ministry of Finance as the Director of Budgets and Fiscal Policy for over a decade.

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