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Douglas Cumming, J.D., Ph.D., CFA, is the DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.  He is a Visiting Professor of Finance at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham.

Douglas has published over 200 articles in leading refereed academic journals (and 40 in the Financial Times top 50 journals) in finance, management, and law and economics, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of International Business Studies. His work has been cited over 26,500 times according to Google Scholar.  In 2022, he was listed by Clarivate as one of the top 92 most frequently cited scholars in the world in the business and economics category.

Douglas is the founding Managing Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Corporate Finance (2021-current).  He is the prior Managing Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Management (2020-2022), Journal of Corporate Finance (2018-2020), and Finance Research Letters (2015-2017). Douglas has published 21 academic books, including Crowdfunding: Fundamental Cases, Facts, and Insights (Elsevier Academic Press, 2019).

Douglas’ work has been reviewed in numerous media outlets, including The Economist, The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker.

Additional Details:

Personal page: https://sites.google.com/view/douglascumming/ 

Current Projects

Various projects on entrepreneurial finance, angel investors, venture capital, private equity, private debt, hedge funds, mutual funds, financial market misconduct, fraud, entrepreneurship, international business, securities regulation, law

Research Interests

Entrepreneurial finance, angel investors, venture capital, private equity, private debt, hedge funds, mutual funds, financial market misconduct, fraud, entrepreneurship, international business, securities regulation, law

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