Professor Ornthanalai is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Rotman School of Management. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Canadian Derivatives Institute (CDI). Professor Ornthanalai joined Rotman in 2012. He received his Ph.D. in finance from the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University. His research interests are in risk management, investment, derivative securities, and financial econometrics. He currently teaches courses in Financial Risk Management at Rotman. Ornthanalai has been awarded with researching funding from the Q-group, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Canadian Derivatives Institute (CDI), and the Global Risk Institute (GRI). His research papers have appeared in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Review of Finance.