Şenay Ağca is a finance professor at the George Washington University and Chief Diversity Officer at the School of Business. She published in major journals such as the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Derivatives. Her papers including those with her PhD students are nominated for best paper awards. She has won diverse grants such as the National Science Foundation Grant, J. Wendell and Louise Crain Research Fellowship, GW-CIBER research grants, American Consortium on European Union Studies grant, GW-Institute for Corporate Responsibility grant, and Dean’s scholarship. She has worked at the NSF, responsible from finance and economics programs, and is charged to work in developing and managing strategically important research programs for the U.S. including COVID-19 proposals, Future Manufacturing program, Bioeconomy/Biotechnology, Science of Broadening Participation, idea labs for Harnessing the Data Revolution, the Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison for Industry and 2026 NSF idea machine. She worked at the advisory board of NSF supported workshop on Bieconomy and continues to work as advisory committee member for NSF funded NBER project on advancing external grant opportunities for institutions serving underrepresented groups. Her research interests are corporate finance, bioeconomy, corporate-government dynamics, macro-finance, COVID-19, credit risk, supply chain and political economy. She has also worked as a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and Sciences Po at various periods since 2006.