Christian Wolff

Christian Wolff is Research Professor at Luxembourg School of Finance and LSF's International Ambassador, as well as a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London. He holds economics degrees from Erasmus University Rotterdam, and received his MBA and PhD degrees in International Finance from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago.

Professor Wolff was previously employed at London Business School and Maastricht University and held visiting appointments at the University of Chicago, the National University of Singapore, and INSEAD. He was President of the European Finance Association for the year 2005.

Professor Wolff has published in leading academic journals, such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Business, Management Science, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of International Money and Finance, and the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and is Founding Editor of the Journal of Empirical Finance. He has taught extensively in various MBA and executive programmes.

Professor Wolff has been consultant to many financial institutions and corporations. He serves and served as director and advisor to various investment funds and hedge funds and is Program Director of the Amsterdam Institute of Finance.

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Financial stability, trading performance, contingent capital, asset pricing, credit risk.

HONORS, AWARDS

• Winner of the 2017 Best Paper Award, Islamic Finance, Banking and Business Ethics Conference, Central Bank of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• Winner of the 2016 Best Paper Award in banking and insurance, Association Française de Finance (French Finance Association), Liège, Belgium.
• Winner of the 2016 Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on Business and Management (ISBM), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
• Winner of the 2015 Best Paper Award of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES), Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Winner of the 2014 Best Paper Award of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
• Winner of the 2013 Best Paper Award from the Indonesian Financial Management Association (IFMA), Bali, Indonesia.
• Winner of the Best Paper Prize 2013 awarded by the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India, Summer
• Finance Conference, Indian school of Business, Hyderabad, India.
• Winner of the 2012 GARP Risk Management Research Award.
• Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, UK, 1987- current.
• Member, American Academy of Financial Management.
• Member, Expert Committee, International Institute of Business Administration (IIBA), Hong Kong and Shanghai, China, 2002-2010.
• University of Chicago Fellowships.
• Dean’s Honor Lists, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.
• Royal Dutch/Shell Prize for Academic Excellence.
• Fellowships Stichting A.A. van Beek-Fonds, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
• Royal Dutch/Shell Fellowships.
• Elected member of Beta Gamma Sigma.