Sheridan Titman is a professor of finance in the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Walter W. McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Services and is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Before joining the faculty at McCombs, Titman was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles; the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; and Boston College. He spent the 1988-89 academic year in Washington, D.C., as the special assistant to the assistant secretary of the Department of the Treasury for economic policy.

He is an award-winning researcher, and his academic publications include both theoretical and empirical articles on asset pricing, corporate finance, energy finance, real estate finance, and urban economics. He has also co-written three finance textbooks, “Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy,” “Valuation: The Art and Science of Corporate Investment Decisions,” and “Financial Management: Principles and Applications.”

He earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in economics at Carnegie Mellon University, and he received a B.S. in management science from the University of Colorado Boulder.