Michael Faulkender


Michael Faulkender is an associate dean of master’s programs and professor of finance at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He is known for his research on executive compensation and the corporate tax practices of multinational firms.
In March, 2018, President Donald Trump nominated Faulkender to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy.
As associate dean at Maryland Smith, he helped create the business school’s online master of science degree in business analytics.
Faulkender has been frequently quoted on corporate finance topics in news and finance publications.

Education

Faulkender grew up in Sacramento and attended El Camino High School. Faulkender earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Davis, and a PhD from Northwestern. He taught at Washington University in St. Louis and Northwestern University before teaching at Maryland .

Research

Faulkender was awarded the Barclays Global Investors’ Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award in the Review of Financial Studies in 2013, for “Investment and Capital Constraints: Repatriations Under the American Jobs Creation Act,” co-authored with Mitchell Petersen. Faulkender was a runner-up for that prize in 2006.