Maureen O'Hara is the Robert W. Purcell Professor of Finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, and she also holds a professorship at the University of Technology Sydney. Professor O'Hara has served as president of the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, the Financial Management Association, the Society for Financial Studies and the International Atlantic Economic Society. She was the executive editor of the Review of Financial Studies, and co-editor of the Review of Asset Pricing Studies. Professor O'Hara was a member of the CFTC-SEC Emerging Regulatory Issues Task Force (the "flash crash" committee), the global advisory board of the Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI), and the advisory board of the Office of Financial Research, U.S. Treasury. Most recently she served on the SEC Equity Market Structure Advisory Board. She has consulted for a number of companies and organizations, including Facebook, Microsoft, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, the New York Stock Exchange, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, and the World Federation of Exchanges.