Paul McNelis holds the Robert Bendheim Chair in Economic and Financial Policy in the Department of Finance, Graduate School of Business Administration at Fordham University. He received his Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1974 and his B.A. from Boston College in 1970. McNelis was ordained as a Catholic priest for the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus on June 4, 1977.

He was previously a Professor of Economics at Georgetown University and has worked with various international development organizations in Washington as well as a number of foreign central banks. He has been a visiting professor at Trinity College, Dublin in 1986-87, the first Philips visiting professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Sao Paulo, Brazil during the 1994-95 academic year and the Gasson Professor of Economics at Boston College during the 2001-02 academic year.

His writings are in the field of computational macroeconomics, concentrating on problems of adjustment and financial liberalization in Latin America and Asia. His current research is on applications of neural networks and genetic algorithms in economics and finance. One book, Neural Networks in Finance: Gaining Predictive Edge in the Market, is now in print from Elsevier Academic Press, and another, Computational Macrodynamics for Globalized Economies (MIT Press), coauthored with Professor Guay C. Lim of the University of Melbourne, is in process.

Contact Information:

Office: 625-E
Phone: (212) 636-6186
Fax: (212) 765-5573
Email: mcnelis@fordham.edu

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