Kurtay Ogunc

Dr. Kurtay Ogunc is the Undergraduate Advisor and Instructor in the department of finance at the Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University. Dr. Kurtay was a Senior Researcher and Consultant at Watson Wyatt & Company (now Willis Towers Watson) in Washington, DC for five years. Between 1994 and 2000, he worked for the LSU Foundation and Office of the Vice Chancellor for Finance as the Investment Manager. He was the recipient of the 2010 Chancellor's Teaching Excellence award by the Texas A&M University System as well as the first prize in the PIMCO International Investing essay contest and a research grant from the BSI Gamma Foundation in Lugano, Switzerland. His research has been published in Journal of Financial Transformation, Journal of Investment Consulting, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of Behavioral Finance, Investments and Pensions Europe, Global Pensions, and The Handbook of Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility. He holds PhD in Decision Sciences and Master of Applied Statistics degrees from Louisiana State University as well as an MBA in Finance from Western Michigan University.