Reilly S. White, PhD

FINANCE PROFESSOR

ABOUT ME

Dr. White is the Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning and tenured Professor of Finance with tenure at the University of New Mexico. Dr. White also supervises the 20th-largest student-managed fund in the country, the UNM Regents’ Portfolio. Prior to his career in academia, Dr. White worked as an analyst for a large Boston-based bank, where he learned a great deal about company analysis, funding, and maintaining ethical corporate leadership. He has consulted with investment managers and municipalities on maintaining optimal portfolio strategies, particularly in response to economic challenges. Dr. White was awarded the 2022 Paul Bartlett Ré Emerging Promotor of Peace Award and serves as a trustee on the $18 billion New Mexico Educational Retirement Board, the Cancer Support Community Los Angeles, and Chair of Voz Collegiate Preparatory School.

In addition to his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut, Dr. White graduated summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth with a degree in Finance. Dr. White has published twenty-one articles in finance and financial technology in the last few years, including articles in Physica A, Journal of Corporate Finance, IEEE, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and the Journal of Banking and Finance. With his students, he co-authored Financial Literacy for Immigrants and Refugees, a free financial literacy handbook that has been translated into Spanish, Arabic, and Dari. Since 2020, Dr. White has been interviewed over 400 times by local and national media outlets on various economic and financial topics.