Rüdiger Fahlenbrach

Ruediger Fahlenbrach is Full Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He holds a senior chair from the Swiss Finance Institute. He received a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton). He has research interests in empirical corporate finance, in particular corporate governance and entrepreneurship. Ruediger Fahlenbrach has published in the leading academic journals in finance, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Finance, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Ruediger was elected director of the European Finance Association (2018-2020). He is former Associate Editor of the Review of Finance (2014-2021) and former Associate Editor of the Review of Financial Studies (2013-2016) and Financial Management (2012-2016). Ruediger is a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He is the chairman of the scientific advisory board of IWH – Leibniz-Institut fuer Wirtschaftsforschung Halle. He is member of the Unigestion academic advisory board.