Laura Starks Receives Honorary Doctorate From Swiss University

The University of Zurich gave honorary doctorates to McCombs finance professor Laura Starks, B.A. ’72, Ph.D. ’81, and seven other people during May as the university celebrated the 192^nd anniversary of its founding. The other honorees included a historian, a legal philosopher, a linguist, a theologian, a banking expert, and a horse trainer.

The Swiss university’s Faculty of Business, Economics, and Informatics honored Starks for her work on sustainable finance and environmental, social, and governance issues.

Starks holds the George Kozmetsky Centennial Chair at UT and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on sustainable finance, global financial strategies, and other finance topics. She is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of The American Finance Association, the European Corporate Governance Institute, and the Centre for Economic Policy Research