Gregory Nini, PhD

Greg Nini is the Marshall Austin Endowed Term Professor in Finance and Associate Dean of Research at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business. He teaches courses on financial institutions and markets, and his research focuses on corporate finance, credit markets, and financial institutions. His research has received grant support and has been published in leading finance journals. He is also a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Services Research, and the Journal of Risk and Insurance.

Before joining Drexel, Dr. Nini was a faculty member at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. In 2019, he testified before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services about the risks associated with leveraged lending. He earned a Ph.D. in applied economics from the Wharton School and a B.A. in mathematics and economics from Swarthmore College.