André Luiz Carvalhal da Silva

Full Professor of Finance at COPPEAD. Post-Doctor in Finance from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and CPCL from Harvard Business School. Doctor of Business Administration from University of Manchester, Master of Management from McGill University (Canada), Doctor and Master in Management from COPPEAD, Engineering degree from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and Law degree from State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Professional experience in companies and financial institutions in Brazil, in the USA, and in the United Kingdom. Former CEO of Fundação de Assistência e Previdência Social do BNDES (FAPES). Former Director of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) in London, Head of International Markets and Head of Funding. He has conducted research projects for several multilateral organizations, such as the Inter-American Development Bank, United Nations, and World Bank. He has published more than 100 papers in books, conferences and prestigious academic journals, such as Journal of Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Quantitative Finance, Applied Economics, Applied Financial Economics, Emerging Markets Review, among others. Founding member of the Brazilian Society of Finance. Author of the following books: “Corporate Governance and Firm Success”, “Applied Financial Mathematics”, “The Private Fixed Income Market in Brazil”, “Risk Management and Derivatives: Applications in Brazil”, “Objective and Practical Financial Mathematics”, “Corporate Governance and Financial Decisions in Brazil”, “Corporate Governance: Empirical Evidence in Brazil”, and “Corporate Governance in Brazil and the World”.

Research Interests

• Asset Pricing, Behavioral Finance, Econometrics, Evaluation of Investments and Companies, Microstructure and Informational Asymmetry, Statistics and Quantitative Methods

Teaching Areas

• Corporate Governance, Econometrics, Evaluation of Investments and Companies

Education

• Doctor and Master of Management COPPEAD UFRJ (1997 — 2002)
• Bachelor of Law Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (1997 — 2002)
• Bachelor of Production Engineering Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1992 — 1996)