Joanne Hill

Joanne has over 30 years of experience in leadership roles at investment banks and asset managers in investment and business strategy.  In these roles she has specialized in index and quantitative products, derivatives, along with volatility and risk management.  She currently serves as Chief Advisor for Research and Strategy at CboeVest, a fund manager specializing in option-based investments.  Prior to these roles, she was Head of Institutional Investment Strategy at ProShares, and also spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs, where she was a Managing Director leading global equity index and derivatives research and advising institutional investors on index and risk management strategies.

She is a recipient of the William F. Sharpe Indexing Lifetime Achievement Award and has published extensively on quantitative investment topics, index products, and derivatives.  Joanne is a co-author of A Comprehensive Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) published by the CFA Institute Research Foundation.  She was one of the ten inaugural recipients of the Top Women in Asset Management Awards.  Her board activities include serving as on the Board of Governors of the CFA Institute, Chair of the Board for the CFA Institute Research Foundation and on the Board of the "Q" Group (Institute for Quantitative Finance).  She was a Founding Member and the first Co-President of Women in ETFs, where she currently serves on the board.  She also serves on the Advisory Council of the Financial Analysts Journal and as an Adjunct Professor at College of Charleston. 

Prior to her career on Wall Street, Dr. Hill was on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). She has a Ph.D. in Finance and M.B.A, from Syracuse University, an M.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University, and graduated with honors from American University’s School of International Service.