Prof. Dirk Jenter

Dirk Jenter is a Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics. He was previously an Associate Professor of Finance at Stanford and an Assistant Professor of Finance at MIT. His main research areas are corporate governance, the selection and compensation of top executives, mergers and acquisitions, and the interactions of firms with capital markets. His work has been published in all top finance journals, has received numerous awards, and has been featured in, among others, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Economist. He has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Finance and the Review of Financial Studies. He is LSE’s Academic Director of Executive Education and an accomplished teacher, with teaching awards from MIT, Stanford, and LSE. He graduated with an M.Phil. in Economics from Cambridge and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Business Economics from Harvard.