Gordon V. Karels is the Nebraska Bankers Association Professor of Banking at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is currently serving as Chair of the Finance Department in the College of Business Administration. He has previously served as Associate Dean of the College, Interim Director of the JDE Program and as an acting Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at UNL. He received his doctorate from Purdue University in 1979 and joined the UNL faculty in 1986. Prior to joining the UNL faculty he served as Chairman of the Economics Department at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and on the faculty at Florida International University. In 1993, he served as the first Visiting American Business Professor at Technical University Chemnitz (Germany). He has also served as a Visiting Professor at Bayreuth University (Germany).

Dr. Karels has teaching and research interests in the areas of financial institutions, managerial economics, and managerial finance. He has published textbooks in financial institutions and in financial mathematics. He has also published several cases in bank management over 30 refereed journal articles