Pouyan Foroughi

Pouyan Foroughi is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Schulich School of Business, York University. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from Boston College.

Prior to joining the Schulich School of Business, he was an Assistant Professor of Finance at UNSW Business School. His main research interests are in the areas of empirical corporate finance, corporate governance, and the role of financial institutions in capital markets, and his research has won best paper awards at the WFA-CFAR conference, Western Finance Association (WFA), and Midwest Finance Association (MFA).

His teaching focuses on courses in corporate governance and corporate finance at the undergraduate and graduate levels.