Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Economics and Finance

Saraf Nawar is an adjunct professor in finance the Manning School of Business at the University of Massachusetts (UMass), Lowell. She is also an adjunct faculty member at Roger Williams University (RWU). Prior to joining UMass Lowell and RWU, Nawar was a research associate at Harvard Business School and the Private Capital Research Institute. Nawar has had a longstanding interest in teaching, having served as head teaching fellow for two applied mathematics courses at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. In addition to teaching, Nawar has an interest in venture capital and start-ups. After graduating with an MBA from Harvard Business School, Nawar worked as a consultant at Sesame Sustainability, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) spinout developing solutions for industrial decarbonization. Nawar received her PhD from Harvard University.