Don M. Chance, Ph.D., CFA, holds the James C. Flores Endowed Chair of MBA Studies and is Professor of Finance at the E. J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University. He previously held the William H. Wright, Jr. Endowed Chair for Financial Services at LSU, and the First Union Professorship in Financial Risk Management at Virginia Tech. Prior to his academic career, he worked for a large southeastern bank. He has been a visiting scholar at universities in Hong Kong, Australia, Korea, Singapore, Scotland, and in the U. S.
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Professor Chance has had numerous articles published in academic and practitioner journals and has authored four books, including An Introduction to Derivatives and Risk Management, 10th ed. co-authored with Robert Brooks, Essays in Derivatives: Risk Transfer Tools and Topics Made Easy (2nd ed.), Analysis of Derivatives for the CFA Program, and Financial Risk Management: An End User Perspective. His next book, Foundations of the Pricing of Financial Derivatives:: Theory and Analysis, is co-authored with Robert Brooks, and will be published in 2023 by John Wiley.
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Dr. Chance has extensive experience conducting professional training programs, and his consulting practice (Omega Risk Advisors, LLC) serves companies, organizations, and law firms. He has also been heavily involved in the development and authorship of the derivatives and risk management curriculum in the CFA program. In 2015 he received the C. Stewart Shepard Award for his many years of service to the CFA Institute in the development of its educational programs. He is a member of LSU's Supplemental Retirement Plan Oversight Committee, and he chaired the university's promotion and tenure committee for three years.
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In his spare time Dr. Chance plays guitar, sings, and performs as a solo guitar & vocal act. He has traveled to more than 50 countries, and in March, 2016 he completed a 26-mile hike on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. He also recently authored a novel, The Assignment, which is set in a university and is available at this link on Amazon.
Previous and Visiting Positions:
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Fall, 2015 Visiting scholar, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Fall, 2014 Visiting scholar, University of Macquarie, Sydney, Australia.
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Fall, 2014 Visiting scholar, National University of Singapore
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Fall, 2013 Visiting scholar, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
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Fall, 2006 Visiting scholar, Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Engineering, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Spring, 2002 Visiting scholar, University of Missouri at Kansas City
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Spring, 1999 Visiting scholar, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Scotland
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Fall, 1994 Visiting scholar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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1996-2003 First Union Professor of Financial Risk Management, Virginia Tech
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1989-1996 Professor of Finance, Virginia Tech
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1983-1989 Associate Professor of Finance, Virginia Tech
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1980-1983 Assistant Professor of Finance, Virginia Tech
