Clemens Sialm is a professor of finance in the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the chair of the Department of Finance. He holds the Charles E. and Sarah M. Seay Regents Chair in Finance and is the director of the AIM Investment Center. Sialm is an editor at the Review of Financial Studies and a research associate in the Asset Pricing and Public Economics programs of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Sialm received an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. The University of St.Gallen recently awarded him an honorary doctorate for his research in the fields of investments, mutual funds, retirement savings, and taxation.

Sialm's research interests are in the areas of investments, retirement savings, and taxation. His research has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Finance, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Financial Analysts Journal, among others.