Kathleen Hagerty

Kathleen M. Hagerty is an American academic and the Provost of Northwestern University, serving since September 2020. Prior to that, she was dean of the faculty in the Kellogg School of Management. She is the first woman provost of the university.

Education

Hagerty earned her B.A. in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1975, her M.S. in operations research at Berkeley in 1977, and her M.B.A. in finance at Berkeley in 1979. She was awarded her Ph.D. in economics at Stanford University in 1985.

Career

Hagerty has worked for 30 years at the Kellogg School of Management previously and held a Professorship of Finance, focusing her research on the field of disclosure regulations, micro structure of security marketing, and insider trading regulations.