Dr. William T. Moore
Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs,
Provost (Interim), and Vice President for Planning
Dr. Ted Moore began serving as Executive Vice President for
Academic Affairs and Provost on an interim basis on January 1,
2009. He is responsible for leading the formulation and
implementation of academic policy, including coordinating the
University's teaching, research, and public service programs;
supervision of the allocation of resources in all academic and
academic support areas; formulation and implementation of policy
with respect to academic employment, promotion, tenure, and
faculty development; and representation of the University before
external bodies.
Dr. Moore also serves as Vice President for Planning. In that
role, he is responsible for strategic planning for the
University System. This includes oversight of Focus Carolina, a
system-wide planning initiative begun under President Harris
Pastides.
Dr. Moore is the Berlinberg Distinguished Professor,
having received his Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in
1982, with a major emphasis in Finance and a minor in
Statistics. Since arriving at USC he has taught in the Moore
School's Ph.D. program and the International Master of Business
Administration (IMBA) program. During 2000 - 2005, Dr. Moore
served as the Editor of the Journal of Financial Research,
and he now serves on the editorial boards of the Review of
Financial Economics and Research in International
Business and Finance. Dr. Moore has authored numerous
articles in refereed journals in finance and economics, and is
the author of the book Real Options and Option-Embedded
Securities (John Wiley & Sons, 2001), and the monograph
Options in Corporate Finance (McGraw-Hill, 1996, 1999). He
has been honored with numerous awards for teaching excellence,
including the Michael J. Mungo Graduate Teaching Award, and has
been recognized for research excellence with the USC Educational
Foundation Award.
