The Western Finance Association (WFA) is an international professional society for academicians and practitioners with a scholarly interest in the development and application of research in finance.
Its purpose is: The Western Finance Association meeting, American Finance Association meeting, and Society for Financial Studies Cavalcade are considered to be the three top general finance conferences in the world.
[1] The society's inaugural meeting[2] was held in August 1965 at the annual convention of the Western Economic Association (WEA).
Officers elected were Kenneth L. Trefftzs (University of Southern California), President; Edward W. Reed (University of Oregon), Vice President and Omer L. Carey (Washington State University), Secretary-Treasurer.
Its current President is Josef Zechner[3] (Vienna University of Economics and Business) and past Presidents include Toni Whited,Douglas Diamond, Richard C. Green, Ravi Jagannathan, Sheridan Titman, and Dr. Lemma Senbet[4] (founder of Lemma Senbet Fund).