William Mullins

William Mullins is a tenured Associate Professor of Finance at the Rady School of Management, UC San Diego. His research explores 1) how social media affects markets and 2) how political forces affect the economy. This work has been published in the top three academic finance journals (among others) and has been covered by national and local news media.

Mullins teaches the Core Finance class in the Rady MBA and Valuation Analysis in the Master of Quantitative Finance program, receiving five Rady Teaching Awards. Before his PhD he worked as an Advisor to Chile's Minister of Finance and helped design capital‑market and corporate‑tax reforms.

He has a PhD in Finance from MIT, a MSc in Economics from Universidad Católica de Chile, and a BA from the University of Oxford. He is from Chile: while he publishes as William Mullins, his full name is William Mullins Pardo.