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Timothy Timura Professorial Lecturer Finance and Real Estate

Additional Positions at AU
Nulsen Endowed Professor of Practice
Faculty Director: SMIF and REIT Money Management Programs
Degrees
BA Dickinson College (Charles Dana Scholar (Economics))
MS University of Pennsylvania (GSE: Philosophy of Learning)
MBA University of Wisconsin-Madison (Wisconsin: Applied Security Analysis Program)
EdD University of Pennsylvania (Wharton ExEd, GSE: Experiential Learning Theory in Finance)
DBA Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead: Behavioral Finance)
Postdoctoral Studies University of Florida-Gainesville (Warrington: Alternative Assets)
CFA Charterholder
CAIA Charterholder

Bio
Dr. Timothy Timura, CFA, CAIA, Nulsen Endowed Professor of Practice, is a member of the Kogod School of Business Finance and Real Estate faculty. By his own account, he completed "The Timura Trilogy" - having successfully served in the professional, academic and government worlds. In recognition of his accomplishments, in 2018, the Portage, Pennsylvania native was awarded a Fulbright by the US Department of State. In 2024, Timura was recognized with the third straight AU Kogod Undergraduate Professor of the Year award.
Professionally, for over thirty years, Timothy held investment management positions with Federated Investors, Principal Financial, and the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio (OhioSTRS). Academically, prior to KSB, he taught financial economics at The Ohio State University, the Pennsylvania Bankers Association School at Bucknell University, Lehigh University, the University of Pennsylvania, and participated as a Research Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. Most recently, Timothy accepted the role of Enforcement Consultant with the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (ERISA) group and before that, served as Deputy Chief Economist and Deputy Director at the US Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA). He has twice been elected to public office in Pennsylvania.
A passionate disciple of Paulo Freire's educational pedagogy (critical consciousness); a champion of expectation-based investment processes; a defender of alternative asset investment strategies; a votary of behavioral finance principles; a proponent of Kolb's experiential learning theory; and the author of The Duplicity Effect, The Retirement Learning Cycle, Responsible Financial Citizens, and Is Wall Street Research Useful?, Timura has research interests in experiential learning theory applied to financial, economic, and political issues.  He is just beginning to imagine the possibilities of AI applied to his old world ...
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Teaching

Spring 2025

  • CORE-105 Complex Problems Seminar: Responsible Financial Citizens

  • FIN-369 Investment Analysis

  • FIN-369 Investment Analysis

  • FIN-470 Alternative Assets

  • FIN-575 CFA Level I Intensive Review

  • FIN-576 Student-Managed Investmnt Fund

  • REAL-470 Real Estate Investment Trust

Fall 2025

  • CORE-107 Complex Problems Seminar: Responsible Financial Citizens

  • FIN-075 Student Invest Fund Jr Analyst

  • FIN-369 Investmt Anlys/Portfolio Mgmt

  • FIN-369 Investmt Anlys/Portfolio Mgmt

  • FIN-461 Behavioral Finance

  • REAL-075 Real Estate Invest Jr Analyst