Michael Roberts
William H. Lawrence Professor, Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Michael Roberts is the William H. Lawrence Professor and Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an affiliate of the Institute for Law and Economics and the Wharton Financial Institutions Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
His research spans corporate finance, banking, and investments. More recently, he has turned his attention to the intersection of AI + machine learning and finance, and financial education. He has served on more than half a dozen journal editorial boards, including the Journal of Finance of which he was a co-editor.
In addition to his research, he is passionate about teaching. Over the last 25 years, he has taught undergraduates, MBAs, PhDs, and executives at UC Berkeley, Duke University, and Wharton. As the academic director for the Essentials of Finance module in the Wharton Global Youth program, he developed a curriculum for and taught high school students. As a result, he’s founded a Financial Proficiency Initiative (FPI), which aims to provide financial education to high school students and their communities.
He graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a B.A. in Economics, and the University of California, Berkeley with an M.S. in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Economics.