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Dr. Rebel A. Cole is the Kaye Family Endowed Chair of Finance at Florida Atlantic University.
Below, Dr. Cole with staff of the Central Bank of Sierra Leone at conclusions of an IMF technical assistance mission on stress-testing for banks in Sierra Leone.
Dr. Cole teaches graduate-level courses in advanced financial management and corporate governance. Prior to working at FAU, Dr. Cole was a tenured professor at DePaul University in Chicago, IL USA; at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia; and at the University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand. During his career, he has taught finance students in six different countries (Australia, Bahrain, People's Republic of China, New Zealand, Switzerland and the U.S.).
Dr. Cole has published peer-reviewed articles in top academic journals that include the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Journal of Banking &Finance, the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Journal of Financial Stability, the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economicsand Real Estate Economics. His primary areas of research are commercial banking, corporate governance, financial institutions, real estate and small-business finance. Most of his manuscripts are available for free download from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), where he is ranked in the top 0.3% of more than 300,000 researchers worldwide. According to Google Scholar, Dr. Cole's research has been cited more than 7,500 times. According to Microsoft Academic Search, Scopus and the Social Science Citation Index, Dr. Cole's research has been cited more than 1,500 times.
Dr. Cole is also an active commentator in the media. During the past decade, he has been interviewed for stories in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the American Banker, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, the Chicago Tribune, CNN Money, the Huffington Post, NPR's All Things Considered, Voice of America News, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, and Yahoo Finance. He has appeared in television interviews on CNN, First Business News, Fox Business News, the PBS Nightly Business Report, as well as on local Chicago stations including several appearances on WTTW's Chicago Tonight.
Dr. Cole received his PhD in Business Administration from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1988. For the next ten years, he worked as a staff economist at the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (now the Office of Thrift Supervision), where he worked on the 1980s S&L crisis; at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, where he worked on the 1990s banking crisis; and at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC, where he oversaw the design, development and implementation of the System for Estimating Examination Ratings (SEER)--the Fed's primary system for offsite monitoring of banks and bank holding companies--and served as co-principal investigator for the Survey of Small Business Finances.
Since leaving the Board of Governors in 1997, Dr.Cole has served as a special advisor to the Asian Development Bank, the Caribbean Technical Assistance Center, the International Monetary Fund, the Middle East Technical Assistance Center, and the World Bank, providing technical assistance and training to Central Banks in developing countries that include the Antigua, Bahamas, Belize, Cape Verde, China, Ghana, Guyana, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Malaysia, the Maldives, Mongolia, Montserrat, Morocco, Nigeria, Palestine, the Philippines, Russia, St. Lucia, St. Kitts, Sudan, Syria, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Yemen. Dr. Cole has participated in more than 60 international missions to these countries to assist in the development of stress tests, financial stability reports, and off-site monitoring systems for commercial banks and other financial institutions.
156 Andrews Ave.
# 2
Delray Beach, FL 33483
ph: 1-312-933-0584
rebelcol