Timothy Timura Professorial Lecturer Finance and Real Estate
- Additional Positions at AU
- Nulsen Endowed Professor of Practice
- Faculty Director: SMIF and REIT Money Management Programs
- Degrees
- BA Dickinson College (Charles Dana Scholar (Economics))
MS University of Pennsylvania (GSE: Philosophy of Learning)
MBA University of Wisconsin-Madison (Wisconsin: Applied Security Analysis Program)
EdD University of Pennsylvania (Wharton ExEd, GSE: Experiential Learning Theory in Finance)
DBA Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead: Behavioral Finance)
Postdoctoral Studies University of Florida-Gainesville (Warrington: Alternative Assets) - Bio
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Dr. Timothy Timura, CFA, CAIA, Nulsen Endowed Professor of Practice, is a member of the Kogod School of Business Finance and Real Estate faculty. By his own account, he completed "The Timura Trilogy" - having successively served in the professional, academic and government worlds. In recognition of his accomplishments, in 2018, the Portage, Pennsylvania native was awarded a Fulbright by the 猫咪社区app Department of State. In 2024, Timura was recognized with the third straight AU Kogod Undergraduate Professor of the Year award.
Professionally, for over thirty years, Timothy has held investment management positions with Federated Investors, Principal Financial, and the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio (OhioSTRS). Academically, prior to KSB, he taught financial economics at The Ohio State University, the Pennsylvania Bankers Association School at Bucknell University, Lehigh University, the University of Pennsylvania, and participated as a Research Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. Most recently, Timothy accepted the role of Enforcement Consultant with the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (ERISA) group and before that, served as Deputy Chief Economist and Deputy Director at the 猫咪社区app Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA). He has twice been elected to public office.
A passionate disciple of Paulo Freire's educational pedagogy / critical consciousness; a champion of expectation-based investment processes; a defender of alternative asset investment strategies; a votary of behavioral finance principles; a proponent of Kolb's experiential learning theory; and the author of The Duplicity Effect, The Retirement Learning Cycle, Is Wall Street Research Useful?, Paulo Freire鈥檚 Critical Pedagogy as a Foundation for a Re-imagined Approach to Financial Education鈥檚 Citizenship, and When Experience Alone Is Not Enough, Timura has research interests in experiential learning theory (as applied to financial citizenship, financial literacy, case studies, and expectations-based student managed investment / real estate investment trust programs) as well as teaching interests in his Hedge Fund Philosophies, Critical Financial Citizenship, Python for Finance, and ESG Fund Investing courses.
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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CORE-107 Complex Problems Seminar: Responsible Financial Citizens
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CORE-107 Complex Problems Seminar: Responsible Financial Citizens
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FIN-461 Behavioral Finance
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FIN-465 Derivative Securities
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FIN-576 Student-Managed Investmnt Fund
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REAL-470 Real Estate Investment Trust
Spring 2025
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CORE-105 Complex Problems Seminar: Responsible Financial Citizens
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FIN-369 Investment Analysis
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FIN-369 Investment Analysis
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FIN-470 Alternative Assets
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FIN-576 Student-Managed Investmnt Fund
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REAL-470 Real Estate Investment Trust