Sean Cleary is a professor and founding director of the master of finance program at Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, and Chair of the Institute for Sustainable Finance. He holds a PhD. in finance from the University of Toronto, an MBA, an Institute of Corporate Directors designation, and is a CFA charter holder. He has authored 14 finance textbooks and has published more than 30 research articles, with his work having been cited nearly 3,500 times.