Background

Dr. Omrane Guedhami is the C. Russell Hill professor and Professor of International finance at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. He has been the coordinating director of the Ph.D. program in international finance since 2008. Dr. Guedhami earned his M.Sc. in finance from HEC Montreal in 1998, and his Ph.D. in finance from Laval University in 2003.

Dr. Guedhami’s research interests are international, covering corporate finance and governance, accounting, ESG, climate finance, banking, and national culture. His publication record includes more than 130 peer-reviewed articles published in leading academic journals (e.g., 42 articles in Financial Times’ Top 50 Journals List), including the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Finance, Journal of International Business Studies, Accounting, Organization, and Society, and Journal of Business Ethics, among others. His research is influential and widely cited. He has more than 26,700 Google Scholar citations. He has received numerous research distinctions and prestigious awards, including the Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing and the Emerald Citations of Excellence Award. Recently, he was identified as a “Top Journal of Corporate Finance Author” between 1994 and 2018, and also among the most prolific corporate governance scholar. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business.

He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Corporate Governance: An International Review, and Editor for Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Emerging Markets Review, Journal of International Accounting Research, and Consulting Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies. 

Research

Corporate governance, audit quality, tax enforcement, state capitalism, national culture, and corporate social responsibility

Education

Ph.D., Laval University, 2003
M.Sc., HEC Montreal, University of Montreal, 1998
B.A., HEC Carthage, 1996