Martin Schmalz

Martin Schmalz is Professor of Finance and Economics, and the Head of the Finance, Accounting, Management, and Economics Area at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. He is also Academic Director of the Blockchain Strategy Programme and co-director of the Open Banking & AI in Finance Programme. He was featured as one of the “40 under 40” best business school professors worldwide at the age of 33. He holds a graduate degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in mechanical engineering from the Universität Stuttgart (Germany) and a M.A. and PhD in Economics from Princeton University (USA).

His prize-winning research focuses on various aspects of asset management, corporate governance, and corporate strategy. It has been published in The Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies, and was covered, among others, by The New York Times, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Forbes, Fortune, Handelsblatt, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He was invited to present his path-breaking research to regulators and policy makers across the globe, including the US Department of Justice, The White House Council of Economic Advisers, European Commission, European Parliament, OECD, various central banks, and at universities across America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.