Fatma Sonmez-Leopold

Fatma Sonmez-Leopold is an assistant teaching professor in the Whitman School of Management, and an adjunct professor in the communications management M.S. departments at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Dr. Fatma Sonmez-Leopold is an assistant teaching professor of finance at the Whitman School of Management. She earned a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Toronto.  She holds two M.Sc. degrees in mathematics and engineering management/industrial engineering from M.E.T.U in Ankara-Turkey.  She earned a B.S. in mathematics from Hacettepe University in Ankara-Turkey. Before Whitman, Dr. Sonmez-Leopold was an assistant professor of finance at the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Her research interests include empirical asset pricing, investments, corporate finance, behavioral finance and fixed-income market. She worked on the pricing impact of idiosyncratic volatility, systematic risk and leverage. She published her work at international scholarly journals.

Dr. Sonmez-Leopold has 10 years of teaching experience. She taught variety of courses including Corporate Finance and Asset Pricing, and workshops on statistical programming in finance. At Whitman, Dr. Sonmez-Leopold teaches Managerial Finance, Investment Analysis, Fixed income Securities and Principles of Finance.