Ron Kaniel, Special-Term Professor of Finance at the International School of Finance, Fudan Universiy, Jay S. and Jeanne P. Benet Professor of Finance at Simon School, University of Rochester, and an honorary visiting professor at Gothenburg University. Before joining Simon, Professor Kaniel was a faculty member at Duke University and the University of Texas at Austin, and was a visiting scholar at Stanford University.

Professor Kaniel is a former Co-Editor, and current Advisory editor, of the Journal of Financial Economics, and is one of the founding editors of Finance Theory Insights. He has served as the President of the Finance Theory Group. He is a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research.

His research interests include Asset Pricing, Capital Markets and Portfolio Delegation. His research has been published in leading academic journals including Journal of Finance, American Economic Review, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics.

He received a European Research Council Starting Grant. He won numerous best paper awards including at the Northern Finance Association Annual Meeting, China Financial Research Conference,  Eurofidai Paris Finance Meeting, Utah Winter Finance Conference, China International Conference in Finance, Finalist for Smith Breeden Prize for Best Paper published by the Journal of Finance and etc.

Professor Kaniel earned his doctor degree in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1999, his M.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude) in computer science in 1994 and B.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude) in mathematics and computer science in 1992 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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