{"id":2694,"date":"2026-03-03T07:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=2694"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:11:18","slug":"leola-ross","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/profiles\/leola-ross\/","title":{"rendered":"Leola Ross"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Director, research and development, leading<br \/>\nour investment strategy research team for<br \/>\nRussell Investments<\/li>\n<li>Worked as a strategist with our alternative<br \/>\ninvestments and edge strategies teams<\/li>\n<li>Conducted capital markets research on<br \/>\nvarious regional equity markets with a long<br \/>\ntime focus on hedge funds, Australia, Asia,<br \/>\nand Japan.<\/li>\n<li>Former assistant professor at Seattle<br \/>\nUniversity and East Carolina University,<br \/>\nwhere she taught and performed research in<br \/>\neconomics<\/li>\n<li>Member of Russell Investments\u2019 Responsible<br \/>\nInvesting Steering Committee and<br \/>\nResponsible Investing Regulations Steering<br \/>\nCommittee<\/li>\n<li>Former Board Member, Women\u2019s<br \/>\nEnterprises International<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Academic Advisory Board for<br \/>\nthe Economics Department at Seattle<br \/>\nUniversity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":22474,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2694\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}