Jarrad Harford is an acclaimed educator and authority in finance, serving as the Paul Pigott - PACCAR Professor of Finance and Chair of the Finance and Business Economics Department at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business. He is a co-author of the prominent textbook “Fundamentals of Corporate Finance” and serves as a Managing Editor for the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. With a PhD from the University of Rochester, Harford has published extensively on mergers, acquisitions, and corporate governance.