Gady Jacoby

Biography

Professor Gady Jacoby is the Dean of the Faculty of Management. Prior to joining the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus, he held several academic leadership positions. Professor Jacoby served as the Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Programs at the University of Manitoba’s Asper School of Business (January 2015 to June 2017). He then led the Asper School for over four years; first as Interim Dean (July 2017 to March 2018), and then as Dean (April 2018 to October 2021). In October 2021, he took the position of Dean of the School of Economics at the College of Management Academic Studies in Israel before returning to the University of Manitoba in July of 2023. Professor Jacoby is an alumnus of the Hebrew University, where he earned a Bachelor of Economics and Accounting and a Master in Finance. He completed his PhD in Finance at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto.

Professor Jacoby’s research focuses on asset pricing, behavioral finance, sustainable finance, and international finance. His research has been published in several quality journals and has been funded five times (as a principal investigator) by the highly selective Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada granting agency. He has also held several professorships and chairs, including the Stu Clark Professorship in Financial Management (2007-2009), the Bryce Douglas Chair in Finance (2013-2018), the CPA Manitoba Chair in Business Leadership (2018-2021), and the BMO Professorship in Finance (2024). His work is frequently cited in the field of Financial Economics.

Professor Jacoby serves as an Associate Editor, Subject Editor, and Advisory Board Member for five quality academic peer-reviewed Finance journals, such as Emerging Markets Review, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, and Finance Research Letters. Professor Jacoby is also the co-founder and Co-Chair of the Cross Country Perspectives in Finance (CCPF) special-theme annual conference (2016-present) and the special-theme conference on Sustainable Finance (2019-present). In addition, Professor Jacoby chaired the annual special-theme conference on The Effectiveness of Financial Regulation (2022 and 2023). All these special-theme conferences place accepted papers in Q1-rated finance journals (SJR ranking), reflecting their high academic standards.

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