Ali Fatemi
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Alumni Professor and Chairman, Department of Finance, DePaul University

Ali Fatemi is the Chairman of the Finance Department at DePaul University where he also holds a position as a Professor. Previously he held positions at Kansas State University and Wichita State University, and has been a Visiting Scholar at UCLA and at University of Maastricht. He also has had teaching assignments at Ritsumeikan University, Erasmus University, Tilburg University, Justus Liebig University, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Europa Universitat Viadrina, Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance, and the Czech Management Center. He is a graduate of Oklahoma State University, where he received his Ph.D. (1979) and his MBA (1975).

Professor Fatemi has published in leading academic journals including: Journal of Finance, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Economic Psychology, Global Finance Journal, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Financial Services Review, and Japan and the World Economy. His current research deals with issues related to socially responsible investing, mergers and acquisitions, executive compensation, dividend policy, and corporate governance. He is the President-Elect of Midwest Finance Association, and has served the profession as the editor of Journal of Applied Finance (2000-2007), and as a member of the editorial board or a reviewer for a variety of domestic and international finance journals, including European Financial Management, Global Finance Journal, The International Journal of Finance and Managerial Finance.

Professor Fatemi is listed in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers and in the International Directory of Business Management Scholars and Research. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Agilex, a Florida-based mutual fund, and as a member of the Investment Advisory Committee of Kansas State University Foundation. He is currently a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, FEI, the Executives Club of Chicago, Chicago Council of Global Affairs, the Bond Club of Chicago, and is a member of Board of Directors at the National Iranian-American Council.

Blog Entries by Ali Fatemi

Netanyahu and the Iran War Option

219 Comments | Posted March 4, 2012 | g:i A

Ever since the early 1980s Israeli leaders have been warning the world, and the United States in particular, about the dangers of a nuclear Iran. Time and again successive Israeli leaders have traveled to Washington to raise the issue of the rising danger of Iran and the need for a...

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Being on the Right Side of History with the People of Iran

0 Comments | Posted March 22, 2011 | g:i A

When the dust has fully settled, and the history of the revolution is Egypt transcribed, the U.S. government will be credited for its part in preventing wholesale bloodshed in an uprising that led to the easing Hosni Mubarak out of office. Having shifted towards the people of Egypt in their...

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Don't Let the Iranian Regime Get Away with Murder

0 Comments | Posted December 6, 2010 | g:i A

Barring a last minute change of heart, Iranian negotiators will meet with the P5+1 on December 6th and 7th to discuss Iran's nuclear program. Most likely, the Iranian officials will arrive after having diligently studied the cache of WikiLeaks diplomatic cables, and prepared to argue that America and its allies...

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Iran's Awakening

0 Comments | Posted January 19, 2010 | g:i A

Events of the last few months in Iran indicate that her dark days are numbered. On December 24th, on the occasion of Ashura, the most holy day of Islam's Shiite branch, hundreds of thousands of Iranians poured onto the streets of major Iranian cities. Crowds angry at the regime buttressed...

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