Dr. White is the Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning and a tenured Associate Professor of Finance at the University of New Mexico Anderson School of Management. Dr. White is also Director for the $5.2 Million student-run UNM Regent’s Portfolio, and leads a series of financial literacy projects in the community. Prior to his career in academia, Dr. White worked as an analyst for a large Boston-based bank, where he learned a great deal about company analysis, funding, and maintaining ethical corporate leadership. He has consulted with investment managers and municipalities on maintaining optimal portfolio strategies, particularly in response to economic challenges. Dr. White was also awarded the 2022 Paul Bartlett Ré Emerging Promotor of Peace Award and is a recipient of the 2022-2023 New Mexico Changemakers Educational Fellowship. In addition to on the Board of Trustees of ERB, Dr. White serves on the of boards of the Cancer Support Community Los Angeles, Voz Collegiate Preparatory School, Voz Collegiate Foundation and the Investment Board of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. 

In addition to his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Connecticut, Dr. White graduated summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth with a degree in Finance. Dr. White has published twenty articles in finance and financial technology in the last few years, including articles in Physica A, Journal of Corporate Finance, IEEE, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and the Journal of Banking and Finance. With his students, he co-authored Financial Literacy for Immigrants and Refugees, a free financial literacy handbook that has been translated into Spanish, Arabic, and Dari. Since 2020, Dr. White has been interviewed over 350 times by local and national media outlets on various economic and financial topics.