Gordon M. Bodnar
Morris W. Offit Professor of International Finance
and Director of the International Economics Program
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
The Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Bodnar joined the International Economic Program at SAIS as a Professor in 1999.  In 2001, he was named the Morris W. Offit Professor of International Finance.  Before joining SAIS, he was an assistant professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester.  He has also been a visiting professor at Frankfurt University in Germany.  He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 1991.

His research focuses on the areas of international finance and corporate finance.  Specific topics include corporate exchange rate exposure, foreign exchange risk management, the valuation of multinational operations, and financial disclosures. Dr. Bodnar's research has been published in major academic journals in finance, economics and accounting as well as practitioner journals.  Presently, he is an research associate of the Weiss Center for International Finance and the Financial Institutions Center at the Wharton School, and has held appointments as a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and as a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund.   He is currently an associate editor for European Financial Management, the Journal of Asian Economics, and the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money  and is a member of the editorial Review Board for the Journal of International Business Studies.

At SAIS, Dr. Bodnar teaches masters-level courses in corporate finance and international finance.  He also teaches international finance in the Wharton MBA for Executives program and Cornell University's Executive MBA program and is an occasional lecturer in Wharton's other executive education programs.  Dr Bodnar is the recipient of six teaching awards from SAIS and Wharton. He is also an occasional consultant to the financial industry, multinational firms, and international research organizations.

 last updated: February 2006