George Ford
Dr. George S. Ford is a co-founder and the Chief Economist of the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies. The Phoenix Center is an international, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that studies broad public-policy issues related to governance, social and economic conditions, with a particular emphasis on the law and economics of regulated industries.
Dr. Ford also has extensive experience in both government and in private industry, serving as an economist for the Federal Communications Commission's Competition Division, MCI Communications, and Z-Tel Communications.
His research on the communications and other industries has been published in in such internationally respected journals such as the JOURNAL OF LAW AND ECONOMICS, the JOURNAL OF BUSINESS, the ANTITRUST BULLETIN, EMPIRICAL ECONOMICS, among others. Dr. Ford has also published chapters in books NTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS ECONOMICS, ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PRODUCTIVITY, and ANTITRUST POLICY ISSUES.such as the I
In addition, Dr. Ford is often called upon to testify before state legislatures and regulatory commissions.
Faculty & Staff
Administration
- Beck A. Taylor
Dean, Professor of Economics - James P. Reburn
Associate Dean, Professor of Accounting - Barbara Cartledge
Director of Undergraduate Programs - Larron C. Harper
Director of Graduate Programs - Kara Kennedy
Director of External Affairs - Robert Blakely
Advancement Officer - Franz Lohrke
Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship, Management and Marketing - Thomas W. Woolley
Chair, Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis, Professor of Statistics - John Knapp
University Professor and Mann Family Professor of Ethics and Leadership and Director, Frances Marlin Mann Center for Ethics and Leadership - Lowell S. Broom
Chair, Department of Accounting & Management Information Systems, Professor of Accounting - Bruce Nichols
Director, Executive Education - Carrie Anna Pearce
Director, Academic Internship Program - John M. Venable
Assistant Professor of Finance, Director, Bulldog Investment Fund - Ivy Alexander
Department Secretary-Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis - Doshia Bennett
Secretary to the Dean - C. Hope Dahlke
Executive Assistant to the Dean and Chief of Staff - Kathey Gassner
Program Assistant - Undergraduate Programs - Yolanda Long
Assistant to the Associate Dean - Lucy Phillips
Program Assistant - Graduate and Executive Education Programs - Ginger Robertson
Department Secretary - Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Management Department - Azalea Hulbert
Department Secretary - Accounting and Management Information Systems - Sherri Brown
Academic Advisor Undergraduate Programs
Department of Accounting & Management Information Sytems
- James P. Reburn
Associate Dean, Professor of Accounting - Lowell S. Broom
Chair, Department of Accounting & Management Information Systems, Professor of Accounting - William H. Belski
Assistant Professor of Accounting - Sharon S. Jackson
Assistant Professor of Business - Cynthia Frownfelter-Lohrke
Professor of Management Information Systems - Dennis W. Price
Assistant Professor of Accounting - Douglas L. Smith
Associate Professor of Accounting
Department of Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
- Thomas W. Woolley
Chair, Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis, Professor of Statistics - Beck A. Taylor
Dean, Professor of Economics - Jennings B. Marshall
Professor of Economics - Jeremy Thornton
Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Social Entrepreneurship Program - Melissa Woodley
Assistant Professor of Finance - Sara Helms
Assistant Professor of Economics
Department of Entrepreneurship, Management & Marketing
- Barbara Cartledge
Director of Undergraduate Programs - Larron C. Harper
Director of Graduate Programs - Franz T. Lohrke
Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Management - John M. Venable
Director, The Community Banking School at Samford University and Assistant Professor of Finance - Charles M. (Chad) Carson
Assistant Professor - Betsy Holloway
Associate Professor of Marketing and Hackney Family Research Fellow - Steven T. Jones
Associate Professor of Finance - Archie Lockamy, III
Margaret Gage Bush Professor of Business and Professor of Operations Management - David L. Loudon
Professor of Marketing - Robert W. Service
- Darin White
Professor of Management
- Dr. Marlene M. Reed
