James Angel

James Angel, CFA is an associate professor of finance at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. His work is at the intersection of financial market structure, technology, and regulation. His interests include fintech, cryptocurrencies, and payments. He has visited over 85 financial exchanges around the world in his quest to learn the details of how markets really operate. He is also the academic director for the FINRA Certified Regulatory and Compliance Professional (CRCP®) program at Georgetown, and an associate of the Psaros Center for Capital Markets and Policy at the McDonough School of Business.

Professor Angel has served as a Visiting Academic Fellow in residence at the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD – now FINRA) and also as a visiting economist at the Shanghai Stock Exchange. He served as chairman of the Nasdaq Economic Advisory Board and later on the board of directors of the Direct Edge stock exchanges prior to their acquisition by BATS Global Markets. He is now the Academic Director of the FINRA CRCP® program at Georgetown.

Jim is a co-inventor on 12 fintech patents. He has testified six times before the U.S. Congress about issues relating to the design of financial markets. In addition, he has been quoted in thousands of media articles and has appeared numerous times on radio and television.

He began his professional career as a rate engineer at Pacific Gas and Electric, where he worked on FERC and CPUC related issues in electricity regulation. After earning his MBA at Harvard, he worked at BARRA (later part of Morgan Stanley) where he developed transactions cost prediction and equity risk models used in portfolio management.

Jim earned his B.S. from the California Institute of Technology, his MBA from Harvard Business School, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a professor at Georgetown University since 1991. From 2012 to 2014 he was a visiting associate professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The courses he teaches include Investments, Fintech, Capital Markets, and World Equity Markets, as well as Complex Financial Instruments and Derivatives.