James W. Wansley, Ph.D., CFA
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 Dr. James W. Wansley is the head of the finance department at The University of Tennessee. He also holds the Clayton Homes Chair of Excellence in Finance. He is the former Director of the Financial Institutions Center at The University of Tennessee.  He previously served on the finance faculty at Louisiana State University. Professor Wansley earned his B.A. from Emory University, his M.B.A. from the University of Georgia and his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina. He is the author of more than two dozen publications and research papers that have appeared in journals including the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Management, The Financial Review, Journal of Financial Research, and the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. His research has focused on the market for corporate control, especially the method of payment used in acquisitions, corporate financial policies, and bank capital issues.

 Professor Wansley serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Financial Research, and the FMA’s Survey and Synthesis series and was formerly as associate editor of The Financial Review and the Journal of Financial Research.  He is currently a trustee of the Eastern Finance Association and has served formerly as President and Vice President of the Eastern Finance Association; President, Vice President and member of the executive board of the Southern Finance Association; and President and Vice President of the Financial Management Association.

 Professor Wansley teaches regularly at the Graduate School of Banking of the South, the Mississippi Banking School and the Southeastern School of Banking. He has been a finalist for the Ross Outstanding Teaching Award presented by the College of Business for senior faculty. In 1994 he was the recipient of the Hoechst-Celanese Award for Research and Teaching, and in 1999 he received the Bank of America Faculty Leader Medal Award in the College of Business. He has worked with bank holding companies in the area of compliance and investment policies  He is a member of the board of directors of BankEast, and Vinyl Corners, Inc. He is the founding President of the Knoxville chapter of Chartered Financial Analysts, and holds the Chartered Financial Analysts designation.  

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