He holds the Notre Dame Chair in Finance and previously served for three years as Vice President and Associate Provost. Affleck-Graves served on the Notre Dame faculty from 1986-2000 – the final three years as Chairman of the Department of Finance and Business Economics – and returned in 2001 after a year at Florida State University as the Patty Hill Smith Eminent Scholar in Finance. He previously taught from 1975-86 at his alma mater, the University of Cape Town, where he earned bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees.