Michael A. Goldstein, Ph.D. is a Professor of Finance at Babson College where he holds the Donald P. Babson Chair of Applied Investments. He currently also holds a three-year appointment as a Visiting Professorship Fellow at the Climate Change Research Center at the Univeristy of New South Wales. He currently serves on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)'s Economic Advisory Committee, and was Chair from 2011 to 2021. Dr. Goldstein previously served as a member of the Nasdaq Economic Advisory Board from 2003 to 2005, and served as Chair in 2005. Dr. Goldstein was chosen to be the Visiting Economist at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) for 1997-1998 and was the eighth academic to hold that post. His research covers market microstructure, corporate bonds, climate change, dividend payments around the world, privatization of formerly communist countries, and real estate, and has consults Fortune 100 companies and financial firms on financial strategy, international strategy, and complex litigation. He is currently the Editor of The Financial Review, and an Editor at Weather, Climate and Society, a journal of the American Meteorological Society. He is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Financial Markets and Finance Research Letters, and was an Associate Editor of Financial Management from 2011 to 2016.