Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

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Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez invites applications for finance tenure-track and tenured positions in Chile at all levels in the field of finance and financial economics.

Job Qualifications:
Candidates must have been granted or nearly completed a PhD in Finance, Economics or a related field. Applicants must demonstrate excellent research and teaching skills. Proficiency in both English and/or Spanish is required. More senior candidates should have teaching experience and a competitive research record that must include publications in peer-reviewed journals.

About the Institution:
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez’s Business School (http://www.uai.cl/negocios) is the oldest business school in Latin America. Its academic programs are consistently ranked among the best in the region. In 2011 and 2012, América Economía ranked UAI’s MBA program as #1 in Latin America. Similarly, the School’s Master of Finance was ranked 44th in the world by Financial Times in 2014. The Business School has a full time faculty of 70 professors with expertise in areas such as: strategy, marketing, finance, economics, operations research, OB, accounting, innovation and entrepreneurship, leadership, and general management. The global mindset of our school is also reflected in the fact that 30% of our faculty comes from abroad.

Faculty members in the Finance group have Ph.D.s from Harvard, Boston University, University of California at Los Angeles, University of California at Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, among others. Finance faculty is productive in research: they have published a number of articles in top-tier finance journals such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Intermediation. They also publish in economic journals. The school strongly supports research by providing funds, research assistants, conference travel, datasets, and other research activities. The research environment is fostered by a very active seminar series, and a Ph.D. program in finance. Some researchers collaborate with economists in the School of Government.

UAI has four campuses, equipped with state of the art technology. Two of them are located in Santiago. Another one is in Chile’s coastal city of Viña del Mar, which is close to the port of Valparaíso. The fourth campus is in Miami, Florida. UAI’s Business School provides management education to more than 5,000 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs. In 2006, UAI became the first Latin American university to open a business school in the U.S., offering a Multinational MBA (http://www.adolfoibanez.com) program for top executives from Latin America. In 2008, it created Chile’s first Ph.D. Program in Management. More recently, UAI’s Business School teamed up with UCLA to offer a dual degree Global Executive MBA (http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x32927.xml) with residential sessions in Los Angeles, Miami, Santiago and São Paulo. UAI’s Business School is accredited by AACSB International and the Association of MBAs (AMBA).
The school and its faculty have strong ties with the Latin American business community.

Position Available in Chile: March 1, 2015

Salary: Competitive with leading U.S. schools, with additional fringe benefits.