Zag Business Welcomes Two New Faculty Members

Welcome to the Zag Business Family!

Shriya Shekhar, Assistant Professor Finance

Professor Shekhar joins Gonzaga after completing her Ph.D. in Finance from Wayne State University. She enjoys teaching. Her research interests include IPO underpricing, bank monitoring, capital structure, M&A and executive decision making. Acquiring her bachelor’s degree in economics from Miranda House, Delhi University, she went on to pursue an MBA in Finance from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, and completed a term at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth, USA.

Having worked at firms such as Deloitte and CRISIL, a Standard & Poor’s company, she has an extensive industry experience of about eight years in financial services and analytics. Her experience includes working on fintech, credit, and regulatory risk projects such as development of a post trade portfolio compliance management application, credit risk assessment framework, risk benchmarking, structured finance ratings, shortfall estimation, credit enhancement sizing, and surveillance of rated instruments. She has worked with banks, NBFCs, microfinance institutions and investment management firms both in India and US.

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Finance, Mike Ilitch School of Business, Wayne State University, USA
MBA, Finance, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India
MBA, Spring exchange, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth, USA
B.A. Honors Economics, Miranda House, Delhi University, India

Maimuna Akter, Assistant Professor Finance

Professor Akter comes to Gonzaga after completing her Ph.D. at Florida Atlantic University. Prior to Gonzaga, she worked as an assistant professor of Banking and Risk Management at the University of Dhaka for nine years. She came to the USA to pursue her MBA at Illinois State University in 2017. After finishing her MBA, she sought her Ph.D. in Finance.

Maimuna grew up in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and found her fascination for teaching during her undergraduate studies. She started her career in academia at the University of Dhaka.  Her passion for learning Finance in a broader arena encouraged her to move to the USA for higher studies. Her current research is on how common ownership influences corporate policies. Her research interests include climate finance, market manipulation, and corporate culture. At Gonzaga, professor Akter will teach Principles of Financial Management and Intermediate Finance courses.

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Finance, Florida Atlantic University
MBA, Illinois State University
MBA, University of Dhaka
BBA, University of Dhaka