Professor of Finance at the Fox School of Business, Temple University and Independent Director and Former Board Chair of the Office of Finance of the Federal Home Loan Bank System PANEL #1

Jonathan A. Scott, Ph.D. is a professor of finance at the Fox School of Business, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Dr. Scott also served as an independent director and board chair of the Office of Finance of the Federal Home Loan Bank System between 2014-2023. Dr. Scott is also an adjunct research scholar for the Conference of State Banking Supervisors where he helped develop the Community Bank Sentiment Index and now delves into the technology-related questions in the Conference’s annual survey. His published research has focused on small business access to credit markets. Currently he is working on community bank positioning technology investment to compete against both large banks and new fintech entrants to their local markets. This research has been highlighted in several podcasts (Graduate School of Banking at Colorado and CSBS) and interviews (RMA). In addition, he and his colleagues have a working paper on the importance of data processing costs on the incidence of community bank mergers between 2011-2019. Dr. Scott teaches in the undergraduate, MBA and EMBA programs in Philadelphia and Tokyo. He has received numerous teaching awards at the Fox School and Temple, including the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award in April 2008 and the Temple Great Teacher Award in April 2010. Prior to joining Temple, Dr. Scott was a senior financial executive at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas during the thrift crisis. He received his B.A. in economics from the University of Cincinnati and Ph.D. in economics from Purdue University.