Dr. Bradford D. Jordan is Professor of Finance and holder of the Richard W. and Janis H. Furst Endowed Chair in Finance in the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky. Jotdan received a BSBA and PhD in Finance from the University of Florida. He joined the Gatton College in 1997 after serving on the faculties of the University of Georgia and the University of Missouri. Professor Bradford specializes in financial asset valuation and corporate finance. He has published numerous articles in leading finance journals and has received a variety of research awards.

Professor Jordan is coauthor of Fundamentals of Corporate Finance 9th edition and Essentials of Corporate Finance 5th edition, two of the most widely used business finance textbooks in the world, along with Fundamentals of Investments: Valuation and Management 6e, a widely used investments textbook. Jordane is an associate editor of  Financial Review and The Journal of Financial Research and a past-President of the Southern Finance Association.