Lena Booth is the deputy dean of Thunderbird Academic Enterprise and finance professor at Thunderbird. She teaches strategic financial analysis, corporate financial management, global financial decisions, and global private equity. Born in Malaysia and educated in Singapore and the U.S., she speaks and writes English, Chinese, and Malay and speaks a few Chinese dialects.
Booth's teaching and research interests have taken her to many cities in the United States and Canada, and to Asia, Middle East, and Europe. She has presented research and taught executives in France, Switzerland, Ireland, Italy, Brussels, Czech Republic, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Taipei, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Malaysia. Booth's excellence and dedication in teaching have earned her Outstanding Faculty Award voted by graduating students 15 times in the last 9 years.
In addition to teaching in the MGM, online MLM, EMGM and undergraduate programs at Thunderbird, Booth also participated in executive education programs with multinational companies such as Exxon Mobil, LG Electronics (Korea), SK Corp. (Korea), Xenel (Saudi Arabia), Alfa Grupo (Mexico), Prestolite (Mexico), Amway, Cotemar (Mexico), SABIC (Saudi Arabia), and Bank Mandiri (Indonesia). She has also taught in the Advanced Management Program for oil and gas executives, and in the Project Artemis program, a unique business-skills training program that aims to build the entrepreneurial skills of promising businesswomen from Afghanistan.
Booth's primary research focus is on capital raising through initial public offerings and through commercial banks. Her research has appeared in several distinguished peer-reviewed journals. She also has authored various case studies on financial analysis, investment analysis and valuation, risk management, leveraged buyout, and financial management. Two of her case studies won the best-selling and classic case awards at the U.K. based The Case Centre.
