MODUPE BABAJIDE WINTOKI

Department of Banking & Finance, Terry College of Business,

University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602

E-mail: jwintoki@terry.uga.edu, ph: 706-542-7175

WWW: http://jwintoki.myweb.uga.edu/

Education

Terry College of Business, University of Georgia

• Ph.D. Candidate, Banking & Finance     2003−Present

• Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Candidate      2002−2003

University of Lagos

• B.S., Electrical Engineering         1996

Research Interests

Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Institutional Investors, Applied Econometrics

Publications and Working Papers

“Corporate Boards and Regulation: The Effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Exchange Listing Requirements on Firm Value”, forthcoming,    Journal of Corporate Finance (2007)

§ Winner, Best Student Paper Award, Southern Finance Association (SFA) Meeting, November 2006

“Institutional Investors and the Long-Run Performance of Private Placements” (with MichaelHertzel and James Linck)

§ Presented at the Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting “Top-Ten Percent” Session, October 2006

“Endogeneity and the Dynamics of Corporate Governance ”

§ To be presented at the Eastern Finance Association (EFA) Annual Meeting, April 2007

Work in Progress

“Endogenous Adjustment Towards Target Board Structures” (with David Cicero and Tina Yang)

Honors and Awards

Best Student Paper Award, 2006 Southern Finance Association Meetings

American Finance Association (AFA) PhD Travel Grant Award, 2006

Financial Management Association (FMA) PhD Travel Grant Award, 2006

Terry College of Business Comer Fellowship, 2004 - 2007

Godfrey Graduate Scholarship for Academic Achievement, 2004 - 2005

Terry College of Business PhD Research Assistantship, 2003 - Present

Management Information Systems Advisory Board MBA Scholarship (for Outstanding Academic

Performance and Extracurricular Contributions), Terry College of Business, 2003

Chesley Morrison Vincent MBA Scholarship, 2002 - 2003

Terry MBA Merit Based Assistantship Award, 2002 - 2003

Academic Experience

Instructor - University of Georgia

Financial Research Methodology PhD Summer 2006

§ Average Teaching Evaluation: 5.00 out of 5.00

Corporate Finance Theory Undergraduate Summer 2005

§ Average Teaching Evaluation: 4.83 out of 5.00

Computers in Finance Undergraduate Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Spring 2006

§ Average Teaching Evaluation: 4.78 out of 5.00

Tutor - University of Georgia

Managerial Finance     Executive MBA  Spring 2005, Spring 2006

Teaching Assistant - University of Georgia

Financial Management   Full-time MBA    Spring 2004

Other Scholarly Activities

Ad-hoc Referee, Journal of Corporate Finance, 2005 − Present

Session Chair, Eastern Finance Association (EFA) Annual Meeting, April 2007

Discussant, Southern Finance Association (SFA) Annual Meeting, November 2006

Discussant, Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting, October 2006

Professional (Non-Academic Experience)

Nigeria LNG Limited (Shell Gas/Agip/Elf/NNPC Joint Venture)     1999 - 2002

§ Cost Control, Project Management, Production Engineering

Procter & Gamble (Central Europe, Middle East and Africa) 1998 - 1999

§ Brand Management

ExxonMobil (West Africa) 1997 - 1998

§ Technical Data Management