Walid Ben Omrane is a Professor of Finance with more than two decades of academic experience. He began his teaching career in 2000 at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium, where he also completed both his PhD and Master of Financial Economics.

He joined the Goodman School of Business in 2010, following appointments as an Assistant Professor of Finance at several universities in Canada and Europe, including the University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM), the University of Louvain, and the University of Liège. Over the years, Dr. Ben Omrane has taught a broad portfolio of undergraduate and graduate courses, ranging from Corporate Finance and Financial Theory to Portfolio Management, Empirical Finance, and Advanced Derivatives. His teaching integrates rigorous theoretical foundations with empirical analysis and practical insights drawn from global financial markets.

Before transitioning into academia full-time, Dr. Ben Omrane worked as a foreign exchange trader at Amen Bank in Tunisia, an experience that continues to influence his research interests and classroom approach. In recognition of his scholarly excellence, he was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma in 2014, the international honor society for top-performing business academics.
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