advisor to Symbiont, Ava Labs and BMLL Technologies Ltd. O'Hara has been a faculty member at Johnson, serving as an assistant professor from 1979–1984, associate professor from 1985–1988 and full professor since 1989. She has held visiting faculty appointments at UCLA, the London Business School, the University of New South Wales, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Cambridge University and the University of Technology Sydney. She earned her BS in economics from the University of Illinois in 1975, her MS in economics in 1976, and her PhD in finance from Northwestern University in 1979. Selected publications Bloomfield, R. and M. O'Hara (2000). "Can Transparent Markets Survive?" Journal of Financial Economics 55(3):425–459. Ellis, K., R. Michaely and M. O'Hara (2000). "When the Underwriter Is the Market Maker: An Examination of Trading in the IPO Aftermarket." Journal of Finance 55(3):1039–1074. Ellis, K., R. Michaely and M. O'Hara (2002). "The Making of a Dealer Market: From Entry to Equilibrium in the Trading of NASDAQ Stocks." Journal of Finance. Macey, J. H. and M. O'Hara (2000). "The Interactions of Law, Finance, and Markets." Journal of Financial Intermediation 9(2): 113–116. Macey, J. R. and M. O'Hara, Eds. (2000). Journal of Financial Intermediation v.9( 2) Special Issue on Finance, Markets, and Law. Journal of Financial Intermediation, 9(2) April 2000. Papers Presented as Part of a Symposium on Law, Finance, and Markets Held at Cornell University in May 1999. San Diego, CA, Academic Press. Macey, J. H. and M. O'Hara (2002). "The Corporate Governance of Banks." Economic Policy Review (Federal Reserve Banks of New York) (forthcoming). O'Hara, M. (2000). "The Future of Stock Markets." TIAA-CREF Investment Forum 4(1):11–12. O'Hara, M. (2001). "Designing Markets for Developing Countries." ASIAN Management Review, APFA supplement 7. Macey, J. H. and M. O'Hara (2016). “Bank Corporate Governance: A Proposal for the Post-Crisis World,” Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 22(1), 85-106. Easley, D., M. O'Hara and L. Yang (2016). “Differential Access to Price Information in Financial Markets,” Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 51(4), 1071 -1111. (Winner of the W. F. Sharpe Award, 2016) Easley, D., M. O'Hara and M. Lopex de Prado (2016). “Discerning Information from Trade Data,” Journal of Financial Economics, 120 (2), 269 – 286. Auen, R., A. Krellenstein, M. O'Hara and O. Slama (2017). “Footprints on a Blockchain: Information Leakage in Distributed Ledgers,” Journal of Trading, 12(2) (Winner of the Peter L. Berstein Award).