Dr. Sheridan Titman has a BS from the University of Colorado and an MS and PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. He holds the McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Services at the University of Texas. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Texas, Dr. Titman was a Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, UCLA, and Boston College, and spent the 1988-1989 academic year in Washington, DC as the special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. In addition, he has consulted for a variety of financial institutions and corporations. He has served on the editorial boards of the leading academic real estate and finance journals, and was the founding editor of the International Review of Finance.

Dr. Titman has served as both Presidents and Vice Presidents of the American Finance Association and the Western Finance Association and has served as a director of the American Finance Association, and Financial Management Association and the Asia Pacific Finance Association, the Western Finance Association. Sheridan has published more than fifty articles in both professional and academic journals and has co-authored 2 additional books. He has received a number of awards for his research excellence and is a Fellow of the Financial Management Association and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Meg and Dr. Sheridan live with their 3sons and dog in Austin, Texas.