Dr. A. Seddik Meziani is a tenured professor of
finance at Montclair State University in New Jersey, USA, and former chair of
the department of Economics, Finance, and Real Estate. He is also the
Soliciting Editor of The Journal of Index
Investing and a member of the Research Advisory Board of ETF Global, LLC,
an independent advisory firm that offers investment decision support, research,
and risk analytics focusing on exchange-traded funds. He previously worked for
Standard & Poor’s and TIAA-CREF. He received a PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute and an MBA from New York University, USA.
Dr. Meziani’s
expertise covers exchange-traded funds, micro- and small-caps and
emerging/frontier markets. His extensive work on ETFs was acknowledged on a
worldwide list of “Seventeen ETF Friendly Professors” compiled
by Yahoo Finance. He has been
regularly featured on the ETF speaking circuit since 2000 and has served as a speaker, panel
moderator, and panellist
on a wide range of ETF topics at several ETF conferences, both in the United
States and internationally. He is extensively published in both academic and practitioner
journals and is the author of two ETF books: Exchange-Traded Funds as an Investment Option (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005)
and Exchange-Traded Funds: Conceptual and
Practical Investment Approaches (Risk Books, 2009).