Edward Keidat is an assistant professor who received his MBA (Management) and BS (Business Administration) from LaSalle University.

Dr. D.K. Malhotra is a professor of finance and coordinator of the International Business Trip to Asia. He joined Philadelphia University in 1993 after obtaining his Ph.D. degree in finance at the University of Alabama. Dr. Malhotra teaches courses in Derivative Securities, Fixed Income Securities, International Finance, and Investment and Portfolio Management at the undergraduate and graduate levels. His research interests are interest rate swaps, currency swaps, credit derivatives, mutual funds, and application of neural network and neuro-fuzzy techniques in finance. Dr. Malhotra has published over 50 research articles in such journals as European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Financial Research, Financial Review, European Journal of Finance, Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, Journal of Economics and Finance, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Journal of Retail Banking, The Real Estate Finance Journal, The International Journal of Finance, Journal of Intelligent Systems, Advances in Futures and Options Research, Journal of Commercial Lending, Journal of Global Business and Journal of Lending and Credit Risk Management. He is currently the editor-in-chief of The Global Journal of Finance and Management and co-editor of The International Journal of Finance. In addition, he has presented over 35 research papers at various academic conferences all over the world. The New York Times, Investor’s Business Daily and The Philadelphia Inquirer have quoted Dr. Malhotra on such wide-ranging topics as mutual fund expenses, declining value of the euro, and merger of Core States Bank with First Union Bank. Dr. Malhotra’s biographical profile has been included in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Finance and Industry and Who’s Who in the East. He was also the recipient of 1999 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at Philadelphia University, and received the School of Business Administration’s award for excellence in research for two consecutive years. Web page: World of Finance.

Dr. Philip Samuel Russel obtained his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Massachusetts. He has a MBA from Morgan State University, a MA (Business Economics) and BCom. (Honors) from University of Delhi - India. Philip's main research interests are in the areas of corporate bankruptcy and managed portfolios. He has presented papers at several international conferences and his work has also been published in academic journals. He has previously taught accounting and finance courses at Morgan State University (Maryland), University College of the Cariboo (British Columbia, Canada), University of New Brunswick (Saint John, Canada), Beijing Concord College of Sino Canada (Beijing, China) and at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He has also conducted specialized training programs for the World Bank, Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and Canadian Securities Course (CSC). He is the recipient of 2003 Lindback Junior Faculty Grant and his research on corporate bankruptcy has been widely quoted in the popular media including CNBC, The New York Times, and USA Today (P. Russel web site).