Salman Arif

Salman Arif is an award-winning Associate Professor at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. Previously, he was an assistant professor at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and a visiting assistant professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned a BA in Mathematics from Cornell University and a PhD from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 

He began his research career working on the multispectral image processing system aboard NASA's Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers launched in 2003. Upon the successful launch of the Mars rovers he joined the investment bank at JP Morgan, where he traded exotic equity and credit derivatives and managed a $1bn+ options portfolio.

He has received multiple best paper awards for his scholarly work and is the recipient of the Indiana University Trustee Teaching Award and was a Finalist for the Business Week Faculty of the Year at the Carlson School (University of Minnesota). His research has been published in top-tier academic journals including the Journal of Accounting and Economics and Review of Financial Studies and has been covered by CNN, Financial Times, Barron's and Marketwatch. His areas of expertise include capital markets, ESG, valuation and corporate governance.