Faculty and Research

Christopher Meakin
Sr. Lecturer, Business, Government and Society

Christopher Meakin received a BBA in Management and Business Analysis from Texas A&M University, a MA in Legal History from Rice University and a JD from the University of Houston. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas. Prior to joining the University of Texas faculty, Meakin practiced law at Vinson & Elkins in Houston where he represented clients facing a variety of business issues including corporate governance, securities regulation, contracts, and dispute resolution. He is the recipient of many teaching awards including the Faculty Honor Roll for teaching excellence in the full-time MBA, Texas Evening MBA, Mexico City, Houston and Dallas\Fort Worth MBA programs and received the same honor at the undergraduate level at the McCombs School. Christopher has also served McCombs as an Assistant Director of the Business Honors Program and an Assistant Dean in the full-time MBA Program.

Clemens Sialm
Professor, Finance & Economics

Clemens Sialm is a Professor of Finance and Economics, the Eleanor T. Mosle Fellow, and the Director of the AIM Investment Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a Research Associate in the Asset Pricing and Public Economics programs of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Sialm received an M.A. in economics from the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. His research interests are in the areas of investments, asset pricing, and taxation. His research has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, and the Journal of Public Economics, among others. He obtained in 2011 the Research Excellence Award from the McCombs School of Business. Sialm’s research has been frequently cited in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Economist.

Laura Starks

Laura T. Starks teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on environmental, social and governance investing, global financial strategies, and other finance topics. She was Chairman of the Department of Finance for nine years. She was also an editor of the Review of Financial Studies from 2008-2014 and has won a number of research and teaching awards in her career. Her current research focuses on mutual funds, corporate governance institutional investors and environmental, social and governance investing.

Raji Srinivasan
Professor, Department of Marketing

Raji Srinivasan is a professor in the Department of Marketing and a Spurgeon Bell Centennial Fellow. She received her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Srinivasan’s expertise centers on organizational innovation and marketing metrics, including such topics as new product development, market entry and exit strategies, and the financial performance of firms.