Wendy L. Pirie

Wendy L. Pirie, PHD, CFA, is Director, Curriculum Projects, in the Education Division at CFA Institute. She holds a PhD in accounting and finance from Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, and MBAs from the Universities of Toronto and Calgary. She is a member of CFA Institute, New York Society of Security Analysts, and CFA Society Chicago.

Prior to joining CFA Institute in 2008 she taught for over 20 years in Canada and the United States at a broad range of institutions - large public universities; small, private, religiously affiliated colleges; and a military academy. She primarily taught finance courses but also taught accounting, taxation, business law, marketing, and statistics courses.

She has published in Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Economics and Finance, Educational Innovation in Economics and Business, and Managerial Finance. Before teaching, she worked at Deloitte in Toronto.