Biography

Ingrid M. Werner is the Martin and Andrew Murrer Professor in Finance at Ohio State’s Fisher College of Business.  She has a PhD in Economics from the University of Rochester and an Honorary Doctorate in Economics from Stockholm School of Economics.  She is a foreign member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences and a CEPR Research Fellow.

Professor Werner is a Past President of the European Finance Association and the Western Finance Association, and a former Director of the American Finance Association and former Vice-Chair of its Academic Female Finance Committee (AFFECT). She is an independent director/trustee of the Dimensional US Funds, Dimensional Canadian IRC, the Dimensional ETF Trust, and of the Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4), and chairs the FINRA Economic Advisory Committee.  Professor Werner serves on the prize committee for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.  She chairs the scientific advisory board of the Swedish House of Finance, serves on the  scientific advisory board of the Danish Finance Institute, and the scientific council of the Swiss Finance Institute.

Professor Werner’s research interests range from international finance to market microstructure. Her research has been published in top-tier economics and finance journals such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Economic Theory. In the international finance area, she has worked on home bias and cross-border securities trading. In the market microstructure area, she has studied a range of topics: cross-listed securities; interdealer trading; floor trading; institutional trading; short-sale trading strategies; the effect of suspending short-sale price tests; dark pool trading; and liquidity and disclosure regulation in OTC markets. Current research projects include institutional execution costs in European markets and retail and institutional execution costs in the US and Canada. She is also studying the politics of economic research.

Professor Werner currently teaches Trading and Markets to Fisher graduate and undergraduate students. She has taught at the graduate level at Stanford Graduate School of Business, The Ohio State University, University of Michigan, University of Toronto, Bocconi University, and the University of Bologna.