James Malm

Dr. James Malm is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Department of Finance at the College of Charleston. He teaches courses in Business Finance, Financial Management, and Financial Modeling. His research interests include corporate finance (especially corporate litigation, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions), investments, and international finance. He specializes in empirical corporate finance with a focus on the link between the legal environment and corporate behavior. Prior to joining academia, James worked as a Project Engineer with Ghana’s Energy Ministry where he helped connect rural communities to Ghana’s electricity grid. He also served as the Revenue Analyst for the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Ghana and the Ghana International Airlines. He also worked as a Research Intern for the Croatian Academic and Research Network in Zagreb, Croatia and the Robert Bosch Company in Stuttgart, Germany. James holds a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honors) degree in Electrical Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, a Postgraduate Diploma in Mathematical Sciences from Stellenbosch University in South Africa, a Master of Science degree in Operations Management and a Ph.D in Finance, both from the University of Alabama. He is a member of the American Finance Association, the Financial Management Association, Southern Finance Association, Eastern Finance Association, the American Law and Economics Association, the Society of Empirical Legal Studies, Academy of Economics and Finance, Gama Iota Sigma, and Beta Gamma Sigma.