The Risk Institute

Staff, Board, and Fellows

Noah 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, 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.

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 School}

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}