Neal Stoughton is a recognized expert in corporate finance, strategic financial management and pension fund management from the corporate point of view. He is best known for his pathbreaking work on the subject of compensation contracts in funds management.

His work has appeared in top journals including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Business. More recently he has published a paper on the structure of the investment management industry.

His latest work is on the subject of mutual fund tournaments, where managers compete by choosing their risk profiles in a strategic manner.
Professor Stoughton has served on the faculties of UCLA, the University of California at Irvine, the University of California at Davis, the University of British Columbia, the University of Calgary, INSEAD, the Thunderbird School of Global Management, Donau Universität Krems and the University of Vienna. Prior to his appointment at WU, he was the head of banking and finance at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and the Macquarie Group Chair in Financial Services. He was also instrumental in organizing the Financial Intermediation Research Society Conference held in Sydney, Australia in June of 2011.

Professor Stoughton has also served as Associate Editor of the Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Finance, Management Science and the International Review of Finance.
Neal Stoughton received his MS and PhD from Stanford University in Engineering Economic Systems (now part of the Management Science Department).