Alexander Ljungqvist

Alexander Ljungqvist
Born Hamburg, Germany
Residence United States
Nationality Swedish
Occupation Professor
Employer New York University
Board member of mAbxience
Website http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~aljungqv/

Alexander Ljungqvist is a Swedish economist, educator, researcher, writer, and speaker. He is a professor of finance at New York University Stern School of Business where he holds the Ira Rennert chair of finance and entrepreneurship. His areas of expertise include corporate finance, investment banking, initial public offerings, entrepreneurial finance, private equity, venture capital, corporate governance, and asset pricing. Professor Ljungqvist teaches MBA and executive courses in private equity and venture capital and a PhD course in corporate finance.[1][2]

Biography

Dr. Ljungqvist received an MSc in economics and business from Lund University in Sweden and his MA, MPhil, and DPhil degrees in economics from Nuffield College at Oxford University. After teaching for five years at Oxford University's Said Business School and Merton College, where he held the Bankers Trust Fellowship, Dr. Ljungqvist joined NYU in 2000 and received tenure in 2005. He has held visiting appointments at Harvard Business School, Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, London Business School, the University of Sydney, Tokyo University, National University of Singapore, and Cambridge University, where he held the Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Fellowship.[2]

Starting in 2014, Dr Ljungqvist serves as the Director of NYU’s Salomon Center. He was previously Director of Research of NYU’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.[2]

From 2008 to 2014, Professor Ljungqvist served as Editor of the Review of Financial Studies, currently the leading scholarly journal in financial economics.[3] He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge,[4] a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London,[5] a Founder and Senior Academic Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Financial and Economic Research in Singapore,[6] and a Fellow of the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm (IFN).[7]

Business Experience

Dr. Ljungqvist currently serves on the Nasdaq Listing Council, on the World Economic Forum's Council of Experts overseeing the "Alternative Investments 2020" project, and on the board of mAbxience, a European biotech company. Previously, he served on a World Economic Forum working group tasked with "Rethinking financial innovation" and on the UK Department for Business Panel of Experts overseeing the 2014 review of the UK equity markets. In the 2000s, he designed alternative investment strategies for Deutsche Bank Securities on Wall Street. Between 1995 and 2000, he was a senior consultant with OXERA Ltd where he advised corporate clients on questions of regulatory economics and corporate strategy. He has consulted for the European Central Bank, the World Bank, Catalano Gallardo & Petropoulos LLP, British Gas, Transco, British Telecom, United Utilities plc, Stagecoach plc, Severn Trent plc, Tradepoint plc, Australian Gas, Telstra, among others.[2]

Honors and Awards

Significant Scholarships

Publications

Professor Ljungqvist has written more than thirty articles, monographs, and working papers. He has published articles in leading scholarly journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Alexander Ljungqvist’s profile at NYU Stern School of Business
  2. 1 2 3 4 Alexander Ljungqvist’s Biography
  3. ↑ Google's ranking of finance journals
  4. ↑ NBER Directory
  5. ↑ CEPR Directory
  6. ↑ ABFER Directory
  7. ↑ IFN Directory
  8. 1 2 Alexander Ljungqvist’s CV
  9. ↑ Alexander Ljungqvist’s Publications

External links

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