Finance – Assistant, Associate or Full Professor

At EDHEC, academic excellence is a must. As part of its ambitious 2024-2028 strategic plan #Generations2050, our school is recruiting 100 professors and researchers between now and 2028, which will bring the total number of staff to 270 by the end of the plan.

EDHEC Business School is seeking several new faculty members and invites applications for the position of Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Finance. We are looking for researchers specializing in Quantitative Finance, including Portfolio construction, Derivatives pricing, Strategic and tactical asset allocation, NLP and ML applied to Finance and more.

Location will be on the Nice Campus.

Job qualifications

You will have completed a Ph.D. in Statistics, Data Science, Quantitative Economics or Finance with specialization in Econometrics. For senior positions, we expect an excellent track record of publications in top scholarly journals. You will be expected to contribute to teaching courses at the Bachelor, Master and Ph.D. levels. Fluency in French as a language is not required.

About the Finance Group at EDHEC

Our group is a mix of senior and junior scholars publishing in top academic journals such as American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, Management Science and Review of Financial Studies. We run several academic seminars and workshops and host a number of leading academics from around the world each year.

About EDHEC

EDHEC Business School is one of Europe's leading business schools and a member of the select group of institutions worldwide to have earned all three international academic accreditations (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA). Finance programs at EDHEC are FT ranked in the top 10 worldwide. In order to maximise its societal impact, EDHEC has organised its plan around three main strategic areas: rethinking business models in the service of the common good (I), the need to educate students to transform (II) and accelerating the deployment of climate finance (III). EDHEC values diversity and provides an inclusive and equitable workplace. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package.

Application procedure

Candidates interested in applying for a position are invited to send a cover letter, a resume, a list of publications, teaching evaluations, and the names and contact information of two referees at [email protected].

Inquiries can be addressed to Abraham LIOUI, Head of Department of Data Science, Economics and Finance, at [email protected].

Applications will be considered until the positions are filled or February 28, 2025.