Massoud earned her Ph.D. from Queen?s University and her Master of Economics from the Waterloo University. Massoud has extensively conducted researched in the areas of Financial Intermediation, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance and Market Microstructure. She has published in major academic journals such as the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and Rand Journal of Economics. Her research has won several prestigious awards and grants including Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, SSHRC, Canada.