PhD – A rigorous financial curriculum
Faculty Research Expertise
Assistant Professor,
Discipline:
Data Science
Department:
Data Science, Economics & Finance
Expertise: Statistical Learning, interpretable Machine Learning, Financial Econometrics and Asset Pricing
I am Assistant Professor of Data Science at EDHEC Business School and a research associate at the Center for Economic Research on Governance, Inequality and Conflict (CERGIC) at ENS de Lyon.
Associate Professor,
Discipline:
Finance
Department:
Data Science, Economics & Finance
Expertise: Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation, Labor and Finance
Assistant Professor,
Discipline:
Finance
Department:
Data Science, Economics & Finance
Expertise: Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Asset Pricing and Computational Finance
Juan Imbet is an Assistant Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School in Nice. Before joining EDHEC, he spent five years as an Assistant Professor of Finance at Université Paris Dauphine–PSL.
Associate Professor,
Discipline:
Finance
Department:
Data Science, Economics & Finance
Expertise: Networks, Asset Pricing, Banking and Financial Intermediation, Cyber Risk
Carlos A. Ramírez joined EDHEC Business School in September 2026 as Associate Professor of Finance.
Associate Professor,
Discipline:
Finance
Department:
Data Science, Economics & Finance
Expertise:
Thomas Andreas Maurer is an Associate Professor of Finance at EDHEC.
Assistant Professor,
Discipline:
Economics
Department:
Data Science, Economics & Finance
Expertise: Behavioral Economics; Experiments; Environmental Valuation; Energy
Valeria Fanghella holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Trento. Before joining EDHEC, she was affiliated with Grenoble Ecole de Management.
Assistant Professor,
Discipline:
Finance
Department:
Data Science, Economics & Finance
Expertise: FinTech, Blockchain, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Cryptocurrencies
Natalia Rostova obtained her PhD in Finance from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Swiss Finance Institute in Switzerland in 2025.
Associate Professor,
Discipline:
Finance
Department:
Data Science, Economics & Finance
Expertise: Climate Finance, ESG and Corporate Governance
Tinghua Duan is an Associate Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School. He received Ph.D. in Finance from University of Edinburgh and was a visiting scholar to NYU Stern School of Business.
Professor,
Discipline:
Finance
Department:
Data Science, Economics & Finance
Expertise: Asset allocation and portfolio choice, Valuation and risk management, International finance
Raman Uppal is Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School. He holds a bachelors degree in Economics (Honors) from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, and M.A., M.B.A and Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Discipline:
Data Science
Department:
Data Science, Economics & Finance
Expertise:
Arnaud Dufays is currently associate professor in Data Science. He holds a PhD in management science from Catholic University of Louvain. His research interests include Bayesian econometrics and advanced statistical modelling of time series.
Associate Professor, Academic Director for the MSc in Corporate Finance & Banking
Discipline:
Finance
Department:
Data Science, Economics & Finance
Expertise: Corporate Finance, Valuation, Business Social Responsibility, Empirical Asset Pricing, NLP
Check Hamid's personal website with more detailed information: www.hamidboustanifar.com
Associate Professor, EDHEC Climate Institute Affiliate Member
Discipline:
Finance
Department:
Data Science, Economics & Finance
Expertise: Mutual Funds, Asset Management, Asset Pricing, Crowding
Teodor Dyakov received his PhD in Finance from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in 2014.
Professor,
Discipline:
Finance
Department:
Data Science, Economics & Finance
Expertise: Sustainable finance, socially responsible investing, climate change finance, venture capital, private equity, IPO, crowdfunding, crowdlending, corporate valuation, shareholders activism, institutional investors
Gianfranco Gianfrate is Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School . He writes and researches on topics related to innovation financing, corporate valuation, and climate change finance.
Professor,
Discipline:
Finance
Department:
Data Science, Economics & Finance
Expertise: ESG, Climate Finance, Portfolio and Asset Pricing Theory, Derivatives and Risk Management
Abraham Lioui is Professor of Finance at the EDHEC Business School, France. His research interests focus on portfolio theory, dynamic asset allocation, pricing and hedging of derivatives, asset pricing theory, monetary policy and asset pricing.
Professor,
Discipline:
Finance
Department:
Data Science, Economics & Finance
Expertise: Interest Rate Risk Modelling with Applications to Bond Portfolio Management and Fixed-Income Derivatives Pricing
Riccardo Rebonato, PhD is Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School.
Associate Professor, Director of the PhD in Finance
Discipline:
Econometrics
Department:
Data Science, Economics & Finance
Expertise:
Mirco Rubin, PhD, is Associate Professor of Econometrics at EDHEC Business School and Director of the PhD in Finance.
Professor, Head of faculty - Data Science, Economics & Finance, Director of the PhD in Finance Program
Discipline:
Business Finance
Department:
Data Science, Economics & Finance
Expertise: Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Liquidity, Banking, Asset Valuation
Enrique Schroth joined EDHEC Business School in July 2019 as Professor in Finance. Previously, he held research and teaching positions at the Cass Business School, City University of London, the Amsterdam Business School and HEC Lausanne.
Professor,
Discipline:
Finance
Department:
Data Science, Economics & Finance
Expertise: Pension fund asset-liability management, global investment strategies, fund manager selection and risk management
Nikolaos Tessaromatis, PhD, is a Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School. Prior to joining EDHEC Business School Dr Tessaromatis was CEO and CIO of EDEKT Asset Management, the leading fiduciary manager of Greek pension funds.
