EDHEC-Risk Institute Executive MSc in Risk and Investment Management - Programme Faculty
First-rate faculty
![]() | The EDHEC-Risk Institute Executive MSc in Risk and Investment Management programme faculty is an exceptional team of international experts who blend academic excellence and industry experience and have been making significant contributions to the investment management profession as scholars and practitioners. |
Faculty members are renowned specialists from academe and industry with expertise across the whole spectrum of risk and investment management: strategic asset allocation and asset-liability management; tactical asset allocation, trading, and market microstructure; portfolio construction and optimisation; performance measurement and analysis; risk measurement, modelling and management; traditional and alternative investments; asset pricing, continuous-time modelling, and empirical finance.
The programme faculty brings together a core—made up of EDHEC-Risk Institute’s professors and senior researchers—and high-level practitioners contributing their technical expertise as affiliate professors. It is complemented by senior industry figures sharing their vision and experience as guest lecturers.
Faculty members have an outstanding track record of publication in leading academic and practitioner journals, authoring of and contribution to innumerable professional books for prestigious finance and investments series, a rich experience of executive education, and a history of senior-level engagements within the investment management industry.
Core programme faculty
The majority of courses are taught by EDHEC-Risk Institute professors and senior researchers chosen for their academic and professional expertise in the subjects taught and their experience of graduate and executive education.
- Noël Amenc, PhD (Nice), Director, EDHEC-Risk Institute, Professor of Finance and Director of Development, EDHEC Business School
- Federico M. Bandi, PhD (Yale), Professor of Economics and Finance, The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Affiliate Faculty Member, EDHEC-Risk Institute
- Ekkehart Boehmer, PhD (Georgia), Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School
- Eric Bouyé, PhD (CASS), Adjunct Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School
- Sergio Focardi, PhD (Karlsruhe), Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School
- René Garcia, PhD (Princeton), Academic Director of the EDHEC-Risk Institute PhD in Finance, Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School
- Felix Goltz, PhD (Nice), Head of Applied Research, EDHEC-Risk Institute
- Georges Hübner, PhD (INSEAD), Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Gambit Financial Solutions, Member, EDHEC-Risk Institute
- Bob Kimmel, PhD (Chicago), Faculty Member, EDHEC-Risk Institute, Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School
- François-Serge Lhabitant, PhD (HEC Lausanne), Chief Investment Officer, Kedge Capital, Member, EDHEC-Risk Institute, Affiliate Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School
- Abraham Lioui, PhD (ESSEC & Paris I), Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School, Member, EDHEC-Risk Institute
- Lionel Martellini, PhD (Berkeley), Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School, Scientific Director of EDHEC-Risk Institute
- Joëlle Miffre, PhD (Brunel), Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School, Member, EDHEC-Risk Institute
- Arun Muralidhar, PhD (MIT), Adjunct Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School
- Dominic O'Kane, PhD (Oxford), Affiliate Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School
- Bernd Scherer, PhD (Giessen), Programme Director, Executive MSc in Risk and Investment Management (Europe), Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School, Member, EDHEC-Risk Institute
- Stoyan Stoyanov, PhD (Karlsruhe), Programme Director, Executive MSc in Risk and Investment Management (Asia), Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School
- Hilary Till, MSc (LSE), Co-founder, Premia Capital Management, Member, EDHEC-Risk Institute
- Raman Uppal, PhD (UPenn), Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School
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- About EDHEC-Risk Institute
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