Enrique Schroth joined EDHEC Business School in July 2019 as Professor in Finance. Previously, he held research and teaching positions at the Cass Business School, City University of London, the Amsterdam Business School and HEC Lausanne. He received his PhD and MA in Economics from New York University. His current research focuses on liquidity management, on value creation by shareholder activists and on CEO successions. His past research, in topics such as financial fragility, innovation, debt enforcement, and the value of corporate control, has appeared in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies and the Review of Finance. Enrique won the prize for the best symposium paper at the European Finance Association Conference in 2009 for his research on the relationship between the bankruptcy code and the return premium across countries. He is Research Fellow at the Center for European Policy Research (CEPR).