John Lewis
Asst Professor of Instruction
Current Positions
- Asst Professor of Instruction, Finance
Education
- PhD in Finance, University of Paris Dauphine
- MS in Financial Economics, Boston University
- BA in Computer Science, University of Georgia
Research Interests
- Venture Capital
- Asset Allocation
- Portfolio Construction
- Quantitative Finance
- High Performance Computing
Selected Awards & Honors
- Master of Finance Instructor of the Year: Elective - Tippie College of Business, 2024
- Faculty/Staff Member Making Positive Difference in the Life of a Graduating Senior - University of Iowa, 2024
- Faculty/Staff Member Making Positive Difference in the Life of a Graduating Senior - University of Iowa, 2023
- Undergraduate Student Organization Advisor of the Year - Tippie College of Business, 2022
- SMBG Teaching Award - University of East Paris-Creteil, IAE Gustave Eiffel, 2018
- Medal of the City - Calais, France, 2015
- SMBG Teaching Award - University of East Paris-Creteil, IAE Gustave Eiffel, 2013
- Faculty/Staff Member Making Positive Difference in the Life of a Graduating Senior - University of Iowa, 2022
Selected Presentations
- "Quantitative Finance as First Adopters," Accepted Speaker at Association of Computing Machinery, Iowa City, Iowa, February 2025.
- "Naive entrepreneurs and their single fund venture capital investors," Accepted Speaker at Behavioural and Cognitive Approaches in Entrepreneurship Workshop, Bath, United Kingdom, October 2022.
Selected Grants & Contracts
- Lewis Jr, J. (Principal Investigator), Principal Investigator(s): John Lewis. OpenHawks Grant to create an open source book on quantitative finance. University of Iowa. Funded. August 2023 - August 2024.
Working Papers
- Lewis Jr, J. (2023). Are bridge loans a bridge to nowhere?
- Fairchild, R., Liu, W., Lewis Jr, J., & Wang, Y. (2022). Financing entrepreneurship: Venture studios funding versus venture capital? - Theoretical model.
- Lewis Jr, J. (2022). Naive entrepreneurs and their single fund vanture capital investors.
Employment History
- Faculty Director, Master of Finance, Finance, University of Iowa, 2022 - 2024