He is the DeSantis Distinguished Professor and chair of the finance department in the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University in the United States.

[2] He and his wife, Sofia Johan, were both subsequently employed by the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto, where Cumming was a full professor.

In 2018, they moved to the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University, where Cumming was appointed the DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship.

[10] Other published research by Cumming includes findings that more people are likely to start businesses in countries with liberal bankruptcy laws[11] and that a greater percentage of women on boards of directors is associated with less frequent and less severe fraud.

[12] In 2021, Cumming and his collaborators received the 2021 Helena Yli-Renko Research Impact Award, sponsored by the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the USC Marshall School of Business.