About Christopher Ngassam

Chris Ngassam (pronounce ghasam) is associate professor of finance at Florida A&M University s School of Business and Industry. Chris has taught graduate and undergraduate students for many years at several universities including Texas-Arlington, Delaware, George Mason, Norfolk State, Saint Cloud State and Virginia State. He also taught for three years in the Middle East where he successfully organized a two-weeks "Bank Risk Management" course administered for a fee to a group of twenty-seven senior Bank Managers from major banks in Oman and other Gulf Corporation Council countries. Chris is also an expert in international development and has served as a consultant for the World Bank with consulting assignments to several emerging economies of Africa. He has won many teaching and research awards and currently serves on the editorial board of several academic journals, including American Journal of Finance and Accounting, Global Review of Business and Economic Research, and International Journal of Applied Management Technology. His research publications have appeared in journals such as International Journal of Economic Development, The Review of Black Political Economy, International Journal of Comparative Management, and Finance Review. Chris obtained his BS in Management from the University of Illinois, Master of Business Administration from Illinois Institute of Technology and Ph.D. from the University of Texas. Married with three children, he speaks, reads and writes French fluently.