Profile

John Chalmers is the Abbott Keller Professor of Finance and head of the Department of Finance at the Lundquist College of Business where he has been a faculty member since 1996. His published and ongoing research explores pricing in the municipal bond market, pricing in the mutual fund market, and retirement savings behavior in households. He serves as a reviewer for journals such as The Review of Financial Studies, The Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Financial Economics and is a member of the American Finance Association. Chalmers also serves as a member of the Investment Committee for the Oregon Public Universities Retirement Plans (OPURP) which provides oversight for over $1.9 billion in retirement assets.

Chalmers received his PhD and MS from the University of Rochester in 1995 and 1992 and BA in economics from Middlebury College in 1985. He has been called upon to offer expert testimony in complex financial litigation surrounding issues in the municipal bond market and in retirement plans. Chalmers has also been on the faculties as a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and at the Toulouse School of Business. He was on the permanent faculty at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University prior to joining Oregon. He worked in public finance from 1985 to 1989.