Financial Experts

Peggy Hedges PhD, MBA, BSc

Peggy Hedges was a commercial lending manager for a large Canadian financial institution prior to joining the Faculty in 1990. She has a BSc. in Botany, MBA in Finance and a PhD. in Environmental Planning. As well, she is a Fellow of the Institute of Canadian Bankers and a Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute.

Peggy has developed and taught corporate, personal, investment and public finance courses for the University of Calgary, Athabasca University and Mount Royal College. She is also an officer in a firm which specializes in providing custom financial seminars to corporate clients and development of multi-media finance courses. She has been nominated several times for the University of Calgary Student’s Union Teaching Excellence Award and was the recipient of the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence in the Haskayne School of Business.

Her research examines the links between resource allocation decisions, policy and budgeting processes in highly regulated environments. Peggy has published papers in entrepreneurship and has co-authored a textbook on corporate financial management.