PhD – Faculty Research Expertise

The EDHEC PhD in Finance programme faculty is an exceptional team of international scholars who hold prestigious qualifications, distinctions and appointments. More importantly, faculty members have been making significant contributions to the field of financial economics, furthering theory and impacting practices through research, consulting, and executive education.

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OUTSTANDING PROGRAMME FACULTY

Programme faculty consists of world-class specialists in finance, asset management, and economic and financial modelling. It brings together EDHEC Business School’s senior economics and finance scholars, and affiliate professors from top research institutions around the world such as Chicago Booth, Columbia, Duke, Imperial College, Princeton, Wharton or Yale University.

Faculty has an outstanding track record of publications in and editing for the most respected journals in financial economics, a rich experience of research supervision and executive education, and a history of senior-level engagements with private and public sector organisations.

EDHEC PHD IN FINANCE PROGRAMME FACULTY

PhD faculty are senior economics and finance professors working full time within EDHEC. They design and deliver the majority of core PhD in Finance courses and act as primary dissertation advisers to PhD candidates. They have remarquable publications records, have earned numerous teaching awards and have accumulated considerable experience leading research teams as well as inspiring and guiding PhD candidates.

PhD faculty list

The rich academic networks of the programme’s core faculty have been tapped to assemble an exceptional cadre of affiliate faculty from top research institutions such as Chicago Booth, Columbia, Duke, Imperial College, Princeton, Wharton or Yale University. These outstanding scholars design and deliver elective courses which correspond to their areas of expertise and they teach the latest research advances or subjects of great topical interest.

PhD faculty has an outstanding track record of publications in and editing for the most respected journals in financial economics. The bulk of these have appeared in the most competitive and influential mainstream journals, but some articles have also been published by more specialised and practitioner-oriented scientific publications.

List of publications

PhD faculty share about their latest research and findings, their experience of teaching to senior practitioners, and a few pieces of advice for PhD candidates’ research.

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