Alan Hess

Education

• PhD Carnegie Mellon University (1969)
• MS Carnegie Mellon University (1967)
• BS Purdue University (1963)

Academic Expertise

• financial markets
• risk management

Current Research

• Value added by financial markets to savers and investors, Risk management using derivatives, Sources of financial risk, Effects of transaction costs, Information costs, Regulations on financial markets

Positions Held

• At the University of Washington since 1967
• Visiting professor, University of California-Berkeley
• Visiting professor, University of Chicago
• Visiting professor, University of Maryland
• Visiting professor, University of Virginia
• Visiting professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Visiting scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 1982
• Economics fellow, Securities and Exchange Commission, 1976-1978

Honors and Awards

• Undergraduate Professor of the Quarter for Finance for Winter, 2009
• Undergraduate Professor of the Quarter for Finance for Autumn, 2008
• Undergraduate Professor of the Year for Finance, 2006
• Undergraduate Professor of the Quarter for Finance for Winter, 2006
• EMBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 1987
• Burlington Northern Foundation Teaching Achievement Award, 1985
• University Distinguished Teaching Award, 1976

Academic Service

• Advisory board, Center for the Study of Banking and Financial Markets, 1983-present
• Director, Center for the Study of Banking and Financial Markets, 1986-1990
• Program chairman, Western Finance Association, 1987-1988
• President, Western Finance Association, 1988-1989
• Secretary/treasurer, Western Finance Association, 1990-1994
• Program chair of the Pacific Northwest Finance Conference, 1998