Associate Professor of Finance, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University.  James J. Angel is Associate Professor of Finance at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, where he teaches in the graduate and executive programs. For the year 1999-2000 Professor Angel was the Visiting Academic Fellow at the NASD, where he participated in several studies of The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. His research focuses on the operation of financial markets in the United States and other countries. He currently serves on the OTCBB Advisory Board, and he has served as Chair of the Nasdaq Economic Advisory Board.

After graduating from the California Institute of Technology, he began his career as a Rate Engineer at Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Following an MBA from Harvard Business School, he worked developing equity risk models at BARRA, Inc. Dr. Angel earned a Ph.D. in finance from the University of California at Berkeley, and then joined the faculty of Georgetown in 1991. He has appeared on many radio and television programs, and is quoted regularly in major newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. Professor Angel has also served as a consultant to broker-dealers, stock markets, and law firms.