David A Becher

Dr. David Becher is the Dean’s Industry Fellow, Professor of Finance, faculty for Corporate and Executive Education, and Fellow for the Raj & Kamla Gupta Governance Institute at Drexel’s LeBow College of Business. His research centers on mergers, governance, and banking/deregulation, where he focuses on the actions of boards and executives and the impact of conflicts of interest. Dr. Becher has worked with a number of Fortune 500 as well as private corporations through consulting and executive education programs. His research helps explains how corporations are run, how they are impacted by a changing competitive landscape, and how they evolve over time.

Dr. Becher has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, CNN, Dow Jones Newswire, Fox Business News, LA Times, Reuters, among others and provided media interviews to NBC News, CNN News, NPR Marketplace, WHYY, and CN8. His work has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and others. He earned a B.A. in Economics and International Relations at the College of William and Mary, specialized in International Economics at the University de Montpellier, France, and obtained his Ph.D. concentrating in Finance at the Pennsylvania State University. He has been awarded two University-wide honors: (1) 2020 Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award, and (2) 2019 Outstanding Mentor of the Year for STAR (Students Tackling Advanced Research) program.