Professor Alexander Ljungqvist
Ira Rennert Professor of Finance, NYU
Director of Research, Berkley Center
Program Director, Salomon Center
Research Fellow, CEPR
Editor, Review of Financial Studies
Phone: (212) 998-0304
Fax : (212) 995-4220
Email: aljungqv “at” stern.nyu.edu
Office: Salomon Center 9-59
New York, NY 10012-1126
Alexander Ljungqvist holds the Ira Rennert Chair of Finance and Entrepreneurship at New York University's Stern School of Business. He also serves as Editor of the Review of Financial Studies, a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, and a Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute in Brussels. Dr. Ljungqvist received his Master of Science in economics and business from Lund University in Sweden, and his Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in economics from Nuffield College at Oxford University. Having completed high school, undergraduate, and graduate studies four years earlier than usual, he became the youngest tenure-track faculty at Oxford University in a generation in 1995. After teaching for five years at Oxford, where he held the Bankers Trust Fellowship at Merton College, Dr. Ljungqvist joined NYU in 2000. He has also held visiting appointments at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, London Business School, the University of Sydney, and Cambridge University where he held the Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Fellowship. Dr. Ljungqvist's primary research areas include financial intermediation, investment banking, initial public offerings, entrepreneurial finance, private equity, and venture capital, corporate governance, and behavioral corporate finance. Over the past 15 years, Dr. Ljungqvist has consulted widely, including for the European Central Bank, the World Bank, and Deutsche Bank. 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. The recipient of several teaching awards, Dr. Ljungqvist teaches an MBA class in new venture financing, a PhD seminar in empirical corporate finance, and executive courses in venture capital, private equity, and investment banking
