Robert Battalio is a professor of finance at the University of Notre Dame. His primary area of interest involves the relationship between financial market design and trading costs. Robert’s research has appeared in leading finance and accounting journals, such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Accounting and Economics. In June 2014 he testified before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations’ Hearing on Conflicts of interest, Investor Loss of Confidence, and High Speed Trading in U.S. Stock Markets and in October 2015 he testified before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Equity Market Structure Advisory Committee. More recently, Robert has served as a panelist on SIFMA’s Equity Market Roundtables in September 2022 and in April 2023.