Celesq® Presenters

Don M. Chance, Ph.D., CFA, holds the Norman V. Kinsey Distinguished Chair in Finance at the E. J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University. He previously held the James C. Flores Endowed Chair of MBA Studies and the William H. Wright, Jr. Endowed Chair for Financial Services at LSU, and the First Union Professorship in Financial Risk Management at Virginia Tech. Prior to his academic career, he worked for a large southeastern bank. He has been a visiting scholar at universities in Hong Kong, Australia, Korea, Singapore, Scotland, and in the U. S. 

Professor Chance has had numerous articles published in academic and practitioner journals and has authored five books: An Introduction to Derivatives and Risk Management, 10th ed. co-authored with Robert Brooks, Essays in Derivatives:  Risk Transfer Tools and Topics Made Easy (2nd ed.), Analysis of Derivatives for the CFA Program, Financial Risk Management:  An End User Perspective, and Foundations of the Pricing of Financial Derivatives::  Theory and Analysis, co-authered with Robert Brooks. 

He has extensive experience conducting professional training programs and serving as an expert witness through his LLC, Omega Risk Advisors. He has also been heavily involved in the derivatives and risk management curriculum in the CFA program, for which he was recognized with the C. Stewart Shepard Award. He is a member of LSU's Supplemental Retirement Plan Oversight Committee. He introduced the proposal to convert LSU's grading system to the Plus-Minus model and chaired the university's promotion and tenure committee for several years.  

In his spare time, he performs as a solo guitar, keyboard, and vocal act. He owns 20 musical instruments. He has traveled to more than 50 countries, and in March, 2016 he completed a 26-mile hike on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. He also authored a novel, The Assignment, which is set in a university and is available at this link on Amazon.