Rim M. El Khoury

Associate Professor of Finance, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Notre Dame University, Lebanon

Rim El- Khoury is currently an Associate Professor of Finance at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at Notre Dame University, Lebanon. She holds a PhD in International Finance from Sogang University, South Korea, in 2009 and a Master degree of Business Administration (MBA) from University of Balamand in 2004. Prior to joining NDU, Dr. Khoury taught several courses in Accounting, Finance, and Economics at Hanyang University (South Korea). She has also taught as a part-time faculty member at American University of Technology (AUT). She is the recipient of several awards such as Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award (2009), Grand winner for Korea Times Magazine Economic Contest (2007), and The Academic Excellence Award from the Korean Government (2006). She published numerous peer-reviewed articles in top-ranked academic journals. Her research activity focuses on ESG and Financial Performance, Corporate Governance, Volatility Modeling, Capital Structure and Market Timing, Corporate Finance and Banking, Financial Market Connectedness, and Bibliometric Studies.