Ginette McManus has been a member of the Finance Department at SJU since 1990 teaching advanced corporate finance and investments to undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. McManus has also taught at various Universities including Laval University in Quebec City, Canada where she was the first woman to obtain a Ph.D. in Finance. She received the EMBA Teaching Excellence Award in 2000 and a Faculty Merit Award for extraordinary achievement in teaching from Saint Joseph’s University in 2009. She also pursued post-Ph.D. education in the area of Insurance and Risk Management at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania during the 2002-2003 academic year. Professor McManus has over 50 academic and practitioner publications in highly regarded national and international journals. In recognition of her scholarly works, she was the recipient of a Faculty Research Merit Award from Saint Joseph’s University in 1999.