Lynnette Purda is Professor and Associate Dean (Graduate Programs) and RBC Fellow of Finance at Smith School of Business, Queen’s University. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst with industry investment banking experience and is an editor of the book Corporate Fraud Exposed.

Her primary research area is corporate finance with a focus on governance. Her work appears in leading academic journals and she has worked with policymakers and practitioners including the Bank of Canada, the Accounting Standards Oversight Council of Canada, and FP Canada. She is a past president of the Northern Finance Association.

Dr. Purda has been nominated for teaching excellence awards at both the undergraduate and Master’s levels. She has taught in programs across the Smith portfolio including Bachelor of Commerce, MBA, Master of Finance (both Toronto and Beijing), Master of International Business , and more. She also supervises research of masters and doctoral students and won the 2022 PhD/MSc Award for Research Supervision.