Leigh Riddick

Associate Professor
Department of Finance and Real Estate

• Professor Riddick is currently Past Chair of the of the American University (AU) Faculty Senate and a Faculty Trustee on the AU Board of Trustees. She previously served as Chair and Vice-Chair of the Faculty Senate. Her teaching interests include managerial economics and strategy, introductory finance, investments and portfolio management. Her research interests include the home asset bias puzzle, corporate cash policy and international bankruptcy. Her most recent publication appeared in the Journal of Finance, and she is co-editor of a book forthcoming on international finance with Oxford University Press. She previously served as Department Chair and as Director of the M.S. in Finance Program, and as a Board Member of the Eastern Finance Association. Prior to joining KSB, she was on the faculty of Emory University. Before she received her Ph.D., Prof. Riddick was a regulatory economist and consultant and a member of the Research Advisory Committee for the National Regulatory Research Institute.

• Degrees

  B.A., Hendrix College; MA, University of Arkansas; M.S. and Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Favorite Spot on Campus:

  Butler Board room in the fall, when all the leaves turn.