Dr. Robert C. Higgins is the Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Foster School of Business, University of Washington. He earned his BS from Stanford University (1963), his MBA from Harvard University (1965), and got his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1969.

He has a lot of academic expertise in the area of risk management and his current research interest includes “Corporate foreign exchange exposure”. He has been teaching at the University of Washington since 1967. He has also been a visiting professor at Koblenz School of Corporate Management in Germany, at the University of Virginia, at IMEDE in Lausanne, Switzerland, and a visiting associate professor at Stanford.

Dr. Higgins has consulted for various firms including Wells Fargo Bank, Seafirst Bank, and Bank of America.