Jill Foote, CFA, PhD Senior Lecturer in Finance at Rice University's Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management Jill Foote, CFA, PhD is Senior Lecturer in Finance at Rice University's Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, where she is also Director of the M.A. Wright Fund (the MBA student-managed investment portfolio) and Director of the El Paso Corporation Finance Center. Her principal teaching responsibilities are in investment management. She is also the faculty advisor to the Rice Finance Club and is Executive Director of the Rice Summer Business Institute for high school students from Houston's low and moderate income communities. Dr. Foote has 13 years of experience from Goldman Sachs in New York. Her final seven years there were spent as a Vice President, managing projects covering strategic initiatives, new business ventures, risk management, and operational, regulatory, and financial audits and risk reviews. The first six years were spent as a sales associate in Fixed Income - first in Money Markets, then in Emerging Debt. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Fordham University, an M.A. in Economics from New York University, and a B.A. in Economics and Managerial Studies from Rice University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She also has a Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is on the Board of Directors of the CFA Houston Society.