Wali Mondal teaches in the Department of Finance, Accounting and Economics. He obtained his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, Master's from Boston University and a Master's and Bachelor's degree with honors in Economics from Rajshahi University, Bangladesh. Professor Mondal has worked and consulted for many national and international organizations including the United Nations Development Program and the World Bank. He has taught in a number of universities in the United States, Bangladesh and New Zealand. During 1993-96, he was Chair of the Accounting, Economics and Business Education Department at Henderson State University in Arkansas. Professor Mondal's research areas include entrepreneurship, microentrepreneurship and economic development. He has published and presented numerous papers in many national and international conferences and journals. In 2002, Professor Mondal published a book titled Microcredit and Microentrepreneurship - Collateral Free Loan at Work in Bangladesh. Professor Mondal is the editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Business and Behavioral Sciences and a member of the Editorial Board of a number of journals. He is the Founder-President of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences (www.asbbs.org) one of the largest interdisciplinary professional societies.