Julie Richardson Agnew
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JULIE AGNEW is the Richard C. Kraemer Term Professor. From 2014 until 2016, she was the Inaugural Director of the Boehly Center for Excellence in Finance at the College of William and Mary’s Mason School of Business. She is a TIAA Institute Fellow, on the Advisory Board of the Wharton School's Pension Research Council, a former elected member of the Defined Contribution Plans Advisory Committee (DCPAC) for the Virginia Retirement System, and a Research Associate for the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. She is also an Associate Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) in Australia and a member of the Academic Advisory Council (AAC) of the DCIIA Retirement Research Center (RRC). Finally, she is a board member of C&F Bank. From 2009-2011, she was the Co-Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Behavioral Finance Research.
Her research and consulting activities focus on behavioral finance and its relationship to financial decisions made by individuals in their retirement plans. She has presented her research at several national and international conferences, testified as an invited expert witness in front of the Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and published in journals that include the American Economic Review, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, the Journal of Pension Economics
and Finance and the Journal of Behavioral Finance. Additionally, she has won several nationally competitive research grants amounting to over one million dollars of funding.
She is passionate about teaching and providing students opportunities to participate in experiential learning. She has won numerous teaching awards and developed the Mason School's first study abroad trip to Singapore. In addition, she developed a risk management course under the Boehly Center featuring W&M's top alumni working in the field and including an exciting simulation run by GenRe. Along with many talented faculty, students and staff, she helped create the annual From DoG Street to Wall Street Program and Women's Leadership Summit and Stock Pitch Competition.
Prior to pursuing her doctorate, Dr. Agnew worked as an Analyst in investment banking for Salomon Brothers in New York City and as an Equity Research Associate for Vector Securities International in Chicago. A former Fulbright Scholar to Singapore, Dr. Agnew co-authored a book examining strategic business opportunities in Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. Dr. Agnew earned a B.A. degree in Economics (High Honors) and a minor in Mathematics from the College of William and Mary. She graduated Magna Cum Laude and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received a Ph.D. in Finance from Boston College in 2001. In 2012, she was a Senior Visiting Fellow affiliated with the School of Risk and Actuarial Studies in the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
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