Prof. Ruediger Fahlenbrach

RUEDIGER FAHLENBRACH is Swiss Finance Institute Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He holds a senior chair from the Swiss Finance Institute. Formerly on the faculty of the Fisher College of Business of the Ohio State University (USA), 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. 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 has been elected director of the European Finance Association (2018-2020). He is Associate Editor of the Review of Finance and former Associate Editor of the Review of Financial Studies (2013-2016) and Financial Management (2012-2016).

His research has been reported in many large-circulation newspapers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, NZZ, Handelsblatt, Forbes Magazine, USA Today, and Fortune Magazine.