Ginnie Gardiner

Title: Business Studies

Phone: 623-0510

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Dr. Gardiner is a seasoned business professor in the Cayman Islands having been on the faculty of AACSB-accredited universities and cited in top peer-reviewed journals in a career spanning over a quarter of a century. She served on the faculty of the University of Southern Mississippi before pursuing her doctorate at one of the highest-ranked universities in the United States, the Terry School of Business at the University of Georgia.

During her post-graduate studies, she was acclaimed throughout the state as being the most effective real estate pre-license instructor. She also had a teaching fellowship at her alma mater. She then joined the faculty of the largest finance department in the states at Northeastern University in Boston where she taught and published in top journals in her field and was cited by business trade journals and the Boston Globe. She served as area coordinator (co-chair of the finance department) among other administrative posts there.

Dr. Gardiner continued to do small business consulting for a liberal arts teaching college in Kansas City where, in addition to teaching all of the finance and strategic policy courses, she started up a successful MBA program thereby helping turn the college into a university. She also served on several non-profit boards and was treasurer of a board over two charter schools. Along the way, she has taught students at four major universities, two community colleges, and one liberal arts university, yet is proud to say that nowhere as she enjoyed teaching small classes of dedicated and enthusiastic students of finance as much as she does here at UCCI.

Ginnie’s research interests include real estate issues, business economics, agency theory, financial markets and derivative securities, among others. She holds a lifetime membership in the American Real Estate Society and has published in refereed journals such as The Appraisal Journal, The Journal of Real Estate Research, The Real Estate Educators Association Journal, The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and various proceedings. Her work has also appeared in numerous newspapers.

Dr. Gardiner serves on UCCI’s Curriculum Committee, Accreditation Committee, Environmental & Safety Committee, and the Research & Scholarship Committee. Gardiner coordinates submissions to the “Eye on UCCI” column in The Journal. She serves on the board of the Cayman Islands Red Cross. Gardiner is a volunteer amateur piano player, motorcycle enthusiast, and advisor to UCCI’s snorkeling and diving club.

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