The Risk Institute
Staff, Board, and Fellows

  • Staff

    Noah Jellison HeadshotNoah Jellison, Executive Director

    Noah brings over 17 years of consulting, auditing and industry experience in business and enterprise risk that uniquely encompasses and combines a multitude of specializations, including enterprise risk management, business and IT processes and controls, risk data science and analytics, robotic process automation, IT audit and security, privacy, cyber, and third-party risk management and reporting. 

    Before becoming Executive Director of The Risk Institute, Noah was at EY and led risk consulting and audit engagements with a focus on building and leading high performing teams globally to help organizations identify, comply with, and respond to multi-dimensional business, operational and IT risks.  He has worked with some of the largest Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies spanning across a wide range of industries.  His experience also includes working within the public sector at the federal and state levels, and with middle-market and start-up organizations.  He has served various EY leadership roles throughout his career focused on risk data analytics and innovation, which includes leading Technology Risk Data Analytics for EY Central U.S. and serving as the Central U.S. Consulting leader for the EY Badges global training and credentials program, of which he earned the highest accreditation at EY for data science and analytics.  He has regularly represented EY at professional events and conferences where he has presented on enterprise risk topics related to accounting, auditing, emerging risk and technology, and innovation.

    Noah also worked at Nationwide Insurance for almost two years.  He served as the director of data analytics within the Office of Internal Audit where he led the ideation, development and implementation of audit and risk analytics in support of audits across all business and IT operations.  He was also on the Nationwide Data & Analytics Enterprise Leadership Team Council, and represented Nationwide in various professional organizations and other collaborations.

    He is a board member of the Columbus Children’s Theatre, where he served as treasurer of the board from 2018 to 2021, and is also a board member of the Columbus Literacy Council, where he is the current treasurer of the board.  He previously served on the Computing Sciences and Mathematics (CSM) advisory board at Franklin University, and was the data analytics leader for the EY Day One Ready program at the University of Dayton.  Additionally, he is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), Ohio Society of CPAs (OSCPA), Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), and International Association of Privacy Professionals (IIAP).

    Noah earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration cum laude from The Ohio State University with a dual major in Accounting and Management Information Systems.  He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT), and ACL Certified Data Analyst (ACDA).


    Isil Erel headshotIsil Erel, Academic Director

    Dr. Isil Erel, David A. Rismiller Chair in Finance, holds a Ph.D. in financial economics from MIT Sloan School of Management. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and business administration from Koç University, Turkey. Her research, which has been published in top finance journals, spans a variety of areas within corporate finance, with particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and financial institutions.

    Isil is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)’s Corporate Finance program and a research member at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). She also serves on the boards of the European Finance Association (EFA), Foundation for the Advancement of Research in Financial Economics (FARFE), the Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS) and the Risk Institute.

    Isil is an editor of the Review of Corporate Finance Studies and an associate editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation. She is the 2010 recipient of Fisher’s Pace Setters Faculty Research Award, the 2015 recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Award, and 2020 recipient of the Recognition Award for significant out-of-classroom contributions at Fisher.


    Ashley Corry, Program Coordinator 

    Ashley Corry is the Program Coordinator at The Risk Institute at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business.

  • Advisory Board

    Klaus Diem - Chair
    Sr. Vice President, Chief Risk Officer
    Nationwide Insurance

    Isil Erel
    Academic Director, The Risk Institute
    Distinguished Professor of Finance
    Fisher College of Business

    Helga Houston
    Chief Risk Officer
    Huntington Bank

    Anil K. Makhija
    Dean and John W. Berry, Sr. Chair in Business
    Professor of Finance, Fisher College of Business

    Bernadette A. Minton
    Chair, Department of Finance
    Professor of Finance and Arthur E. Shepard Endowed Professor in Insurance
    Fisher College of Business

    Gary Price
    Chief Risk Officer 
    Battelle Memorial Institute 

    Noah Jellison
    Executive Director, The Risk Institute
    Fisher College of Business

     
  • Fellows

    Jaideep (Jay) Anand
    William H. Davis Chair in the American Free Enterprise System and Professor of Strategy
    The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

    Nicholas P.B. Bollen
    E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Finance
    Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University

    Murillo Campello
    Lewis H. Durland Professor of Management, Professor of Finance
    Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

    Zhenhua Chen
    Assistant Professor City and Regional Planning (CRP)
    The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture

    Keely Croxton
    Associate Professor of Logistics
    The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

    Elroy Dimson
    Chair, Newton Centre for Endowment Asset Management
    University of Cambridge Judge Business School
    Emeritus Professor of Finance
    London Business Schoo
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    Isil Erel
    Academic Director, The Risk Institute
    Distinguished Professor of Finance
    The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

    Shan Ge
    PhD Candidate, Finance
    The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

    Erasmo Giambona
    Associate Professor of Operations
    The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

    Ralph T. Greco
    Director, Business Analytics Initiative
    The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

    Seth D. Guikema
    Associate Professor, Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering
    University of Michigan

    Brian Hilligoss
    Assistant Professor
    The Ohio State University College of Public Health, Division of Health Services Management and Policy

    Oğuzhan Karakaş
    Assitant Professor of Finance
    Boston College Carroll School of Management

    Yingchao Lan
    PhD Candidate, Operations Management
    The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

    Xi Li
    Assistant Professor of Accounting
    Temple University Fox School of Business

    Anil K. Makhija
    Dean and John W. Berry, Sr. Chair in Business and Professor of Finance
    The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

    Brett Massimino
    Assistant Professor and Professor Robert M. Chase Faculty Fellow
    Department of Services Operations Management
    Cornell University, School of Hotel Administration

    Bernadette A. Minton
    Chair, Department of Finance
    Professor of Finance and Arthur E. Shepard Endowed Professor in Insurance
    The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

    Yihui Pan
    Assistant Professor of Finance
    University of Utah

    Jordan V. Pino
    PhD Student and Graduate Research Associate, Department of Geography
    The Ohio State University

    Steven M. Quiring
    Professor, Atmospheric Sciences Program, Department of Geography
    The Ohio State University

    Simcha Ronen
    Emeritus Professor of International Management and Organizational Psychology
    Tel-Aviv University Graduate School of Business

    Adam Rose
    Professor, The National Center of Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE)
    University of Southern California

    Paul Rose
    Frank E. and Virginia H. Bazler Designated Professor in Business Law
    Director, Law, Finance & Governance at Ohio State
    The Ohio State University

    Eric Seiber
    Associate Professor
    The Ohio State University College of Public Health, Division of Health Services Management and Policy

    Berk Sensoy
    Associate Professor of Finance
    The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

    Oded Shenkar
    Ford Motor Company Chair in Global Business Management
    Professor of Management and Human Resources
    The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

    Stephen A. Shield
    M.A. Student and Graduate Research Associate, Department of Geography
    The Ohio State University

    Brittany Shoots-Reinhard
    Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
    The Ohio State University

    René M. Stulz
    Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics
    Director, Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics
    The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

    Tracy Yue Wang
    Assistant Professor of Finance
    University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management

    Michael S. Weisbach
    Ralph W. Kurtz Chair in Finance
    The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business
    Research Associate
    National Bureau of Economic Research

    Ingrid M. Werner
    Martin and Andrew Murrer Professor in Finance
    The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

    Karen Hopper Wruck
    Professor of Finance, Dean's Distinguished Professorship
    The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

    YiLin Wu
    Professor of Economics
    National Taiwan University College of Social Sciences

    Wendy Yi Xu
    Assistant Professor
    The Ohio State University College of Public Health, Division of Health Services Management and Policy

     

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