Professor Douglas J. Cumming

Douglas Cumming, J.D., Ph.D., CFA, is a Professor of Finance and the Steven Shulman ’62 Endowed Chair for Business Leadership at the Stevens Institute of Technology School of Business in Hoboken, New Jersey.  Douglas has held positions as the DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, 2018-2025, and as a Professor and the Ontario Research Chair at the Schulich School of Business, York University, in Toronto, Canada, 2007-2018. Douglas has held visiting appointments at Essex Business School, Kobe University, EMLyon, RMIT, and University of Bergamo, among others.

Douglas co-founded, alongside Sofia Johan, the Annual RCF-ECGI Corporate Finance and Governance Conference held in mid-December each year, now in it's 6th edition.

Douglas is the Founding Managing Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Corporate Finance (2021-current), which entered Scopus and Scimago in 2025, and is ranked a top quartile Q1 journal.  Douglas is the Managing Editor-in Chief of the Journal of Alternative Investments (2025-current).  He is a former Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Industrial and Business Economics (2021-2024).  He is a former Managing Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Management (January 2020 - December 2022) and the Journal of Corporate Finance (January 2018 – December 2020). He is the Founding Editor of Annals of Corporate Governance (January 2016 – January 2020) and a former Co-Editor of Finance Research Letters and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the European Journal of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Studies in Economics and Finance, and an Editorial Board member of numerous academic journals.

Douglas has published over 250 articles in leading refereed academic journals (including 49 in Financial Times top 50 journals) in finance, management, and law and economics, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Economic Journal, Journal of Business, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of International Business Studies, and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. In November 2022, Douglas was listed by Clarivate as one of the top 92 most cited researchers in the world in the business and economics category.  Douglas' work has been cited over 33,000 times. 

Douglas has published 23 academic books. He is the coauthor of Venture Capital and Private Equity Contracting (Elsevier Academic Press, 2nd Edition, 2013), and Hedge Fund Structure, Regulation and Performance around the World (Oxford University Press, 2013), and Crowdfunding: Fundamental Cases, Facts, and Insights (Elsevier Academic Press, 2019). He is the Editor of the Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance (Oxford University Press, 2013), the Oxford Handbook of Private Equity (Oxford University Press, 2013), the Oxford Handbook of Venture Capital (Oxford University Press, 2013), the Oxford Handbook of Sovereign Wealth Funds (Oxford University Press, 2017), the Oxford Handbook of IPOs (Oxford University Press, 2018), and the Oxford Handbook of Hedge Funds (Oxford University Press, 2021), among others.

Douglas is a regular speaker at academic and industry conferences around the world. He has given recent keynote speeches at the ISAFE Conference in Saigon, British Academy of Management Corporate Governance Conference, Entrepreneurial Finance Association, European Financial Management Association, Financial Research Network Corporate Finance Conference, French Finance Association, Infiniti Conference on International Finance, Vietnam Symposium in Banking and Finance, the Budapest Liquidity and Financial Markets Conference, and the Humboldt University of Berlin Fintech Conference, among others.

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

Douglas keeps active in his spare time by cycling, running, swimming, and snowboarding.  He completed the 2023 Florida Ironman in 13 hours and 6 minutes.