Mila Getmansky Sherman

Mila Getmansky Sherman is Fuller and Meehan Endowed Professor of Finance at the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst. Getmansky Sherman's research specializes in empirical asset pricing, hedge funds, performance of investment trading strategies, financial institutions, systemic risk, ecological finance, ESG, gender in finance, and system dynamics. She received a BS in Chemical Engineering and minor in Economics from MIT and a PhD in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the MIT Lab for Financial Engineering before joining UMass Amherst. Getmansky Sherman is an associate director of the Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets (CISDM) at UMass Amherst whose goal is to facilitate research in international investment and derivative markets, and promote interactions between the academic and business communities. Her work has been published in several journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Financial Analysts Journal, Environmental Research Communications, and the Journal of Investment Management. 

Getmansky Sherman has participated in numerous conference organizing committees including the American Finance Association, Western Finance Association, Financial Management Association, SFS Cavalcade, and the European Financial Association. Getmansky Sherman has served as the editor of the Journal of Alternative Investments and Associate Editor of Data Science in Science and Quarterly Journal of Finance. She is a recipient of numerous awards and grants from the Q-Group, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inquire-Europe, and National Science Foundation, and a recipient of the College Outstanding Research Award. Before joining UMass Amherst, Getmansky Sherman worked in the quantitative research group at the Deutsche Asset Management in New York. Getmansky Sherman teaches courses in corporate finance, financial modeling, and alternative investments in MBA, Masters of Finance and undergraduate programs. She has had numerous government appointments and affiliations being a Visiting Scholar at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. She was a contractor at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and an Expert Financial Economist with the SEC. She is currently on the Managed Funds Association (MFA) academic advisory council and is on the AIF Global Academic board.  

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