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Bio
Last rev. March 2020 Pat Obi is an endowed professor at Purdue University Northwest with the title, White Lodging Professor of Finance. He received his Ph.D. in Finance and Econometrics from the University of Mississippi and is a Certified Hotel Industry Analyst (CHIA). Currently, he is the Director of the Executive MBA program at Purdue University Northwest where he also teaches Corporate Finance, Financial Derivatives, and Business Analytics. In addition to serving on the board of local organizations in the Chicago area, Obi also consults for businesses and local governments in the United States on matters relating to valuation, financial planning, and financial performance. He conducts regular financial workshops at community centers and businesses, especially those in the hospitality industry. In the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Obi joined a team of American professors in an annual volunteer teaching assistance at Université Nouvelle Grand’Anse in Jérémie, Haiti. At various periods beginning 1995, he has served as a visiting scholar at a number of overseas universities. These include Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), Vilnius Technical University (Lithuania), Klaipeda University (Lithuania), Vaal University of Technology (South Africa), North West University (South Africa), Kyung Hee University (South Korea), Khon Kaen University (Thailand), Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (Ghana), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana), and ICFAI Business School-Hyderabad(India). Following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, Obi gave invited presentations at a number of international venues. These include Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic (July 2009); Shahe City, China (August 2010); Khon Kaen University, Thailand (August 2009); Vaal Area Chamber of Commerce, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa (March 2009); Hotel & Tourism Industry Forum at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea (October 2009); Alliance Française in Jérémie, Haiti (September 2011); University of Cyprus in Nicosia (November 2012), Helsinki, Finland (July 2013), and New Orleans, Louisiana (Nov 2014). Similar presentations were also given at various media events in the Chicago area between 2008 and 2014. Obi is the recipient of the first Faculty Lecturer Award (2010) and the Outstanding Faculty Scholar Award (2015) at Purdue University Northwest. Teaching recognitions at Purdue Northwest include Teacher-of-the-Year (2000) and a number of teaching excellence awards from the Executive MBA program. Research awards have come from the Academy of Finance, Institute for Global Business and Finance, Association for Global Business, and Applied Business Research. Obi has numerous scholarly publications and is on the editorial boards of several academic journals. He is the author of Basics of Business Finance, a Lithuanian language college textbook; and We Must Change the Way We Live, a general purpose book on financial education, published by Archway Publishing. Please click here for my EDUCATIONAL VIDEO CHANNEL
 
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