Cheol S. Eun (Ph.D., NYU, 1981) is the Thomas R. Williams Chair in International Finance at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Before joining Georgia Tech, he had taught at the University of Minnesota, and the University of Maryland. He also taught at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Esslingen University of Technology, Germany as a visiting professor. He has published extensively on international finance issues in such major journals as the Journal of Finance, JFQA, the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Portfolio Management, Management Science, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and Oxford Economic Papers. Currently, he serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Banking and Finance, Global Finance Journal, Journal of Financial Research, and European Financial Management. His research is widely quoted and referenced in scholarly papers and textbooks in the United States and abroad. He recently co-authored a textbook, International Financial Management, Irwin/McGraw Hill (1998), with Professor Bruce Resnick, which has been adopted in such countries as Australia, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Korea, Singapore, the U.K. and the U.S.
Professor Eun is the principal organizer of the International Finance Conference that has been held each year at Georgia Tech. The key objectives of the conference are to promote research on international finance and provide a forum for interactions among academics, practitioners and regulators who are interested in vital current issues of international finance.
Professor Eun has taught a variety of courses, including financial management, investment, and international finance, at the undergraduate, graduate and executive levels, and was the winner of the Krowe Teaching Excellence Award at the University of Maryland in 1988. He also has served as a consultant to various national and international organizations, including the World Bank, the Korea Development Institute, and LG Group, advising issues relating to capital market liberalization, global capital raising, international investment, and exchange risk management. In addition, he has been a frequent speaker at academic and professional meetings held throughout the world.