prof. dr. R.E. (Roberto) Wessels

Academic positions

-Clinical Professor of Finance at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. Fall 2002- Fall 2011.

 -Visiting Professor of Finance, at the Solvay School of Business, Free University of Brussels. Spring, 2000.

 -Visiting Professor of International Finance at the Wiliam E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester. Spring 1989.

-Visiting Professor of International Finance at the Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California Los Angeles. Spring 1984; Spring 1985 and Spring 1986.

-Professor of International Finance, University of Rochester, Rochester-Erasmus Executive MBA program. 1985-89.

-Associate professor (tenured), Department of Finance and Department of Monetary Economics, Faculty of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam. 1982-89.

-Assistant professor (non-tenured), Department of Economics, School of Law, Leyden University. 1976-82.

Experience in investment management

- Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director of  Fortis Investment Management N.V., Brussels and its predecessors (Fortis Investments, Utrecht and MeesPierson Capital Management, Amsterdam). 1996-2000.

-Founder and Managing Director ARCAS - Wessels, Ross & Roll, 1989-2000. ARCAS-WRR was an investment management firm founded by Richard Roll of UCLA, Stephen Ross of MIT and myself).

-Worked as a financial consultant for Chase Manhattan Bank, London (1987-89) and AMRO Bank, Amsterdam (1986).