Lionel Martellini

Lionel Martellini, PhD, is Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School and Director of EDHEC-Risk Institute. He is a former member of the faculty at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, and has also taught at U.C. Berkeley and at Princeton University, where he has been a visiting fellow at the Operations Research and Financial Engineering department.

Professor Martellini holds Master’s Degrees in Management (ESCP Europe), Economics (ENSAE), Mathematics (Paris 6 University) and Statistics (Paris 6 University), as well as a PhD in Finance from the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. Outside of his activities in finance, he recently completed a PhD in Relativistic Astrophysics (University Côte d''Azur) and has become a member of the LIGO/Virgo international collaboration for the observation of gravitational waves.

Professor Martellini is a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Portfolio Management, The Journal of Alternative Investments, and The Journal of Retirement. He conducts active research in a broad range of topics related to investment solutions for individual and institutional investors, equity and fixed-income portfolio construction, risk management and derivatives valuation. His work has been published in leading academic and practitioner journals and has been featured in major European and global dailies such as The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. He has co-authored reference textbooks on topics related to Alternative Investment Strategies, Fixed-Income Securities, and is preparing a new textbook on Investment Solutions.

Professor Martellini has served as a consultant for large institutional investors, investments banks and asset management firms on a number of questions related to risk and asset allocation decisions, and is a regular speaker in seminars and conferences on these subjects.

Main academic publications

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (2014), Journal of Pension Economics and Finance (2012 ; 2013), Bankers, Markets & Investors (2012 ; 2013 ; 2014 ; 2015), Journal of Investment Management (2011), European Financial Management Journal (2010), Banques & Marchés (2008), Journal of Mathematical Economics (2008), Journal of Performance Measurement (2003), Journal of Asset Management (2003), Journal of Alternative Investments (2003 ; 2004 ; 2008 ; 2011 ; 2015 ; 2017), Financial Analysts Journal (2003 ; 2011), Economic & Financial Computing (2004), Journal of Portfolio Management (2004 ; 2006 ; 2007 ; 2008 ; 2009 ; 2010 ; 2011 ; 2012 ; 2014 ; 2015 ; 2017), Journal of Fixed Income (2005 ; 2006 ; 2007 ; 2015), Managerial Finance (2005), Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control (2005), Management Science (2006), Journal of Financial Risk Management (2006), Review of Financial Studies (2006 ; 2010), European Financial Management Journal(2007 ; 2010)

Education

• PhD Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (membre d'Université Côte d'Azur) (2012 — 2017)
• PhD University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (1997 — 2000)
• Master's degree Université Pierre et Marie Curie (1994 — 1995)
• Master's degree Université Pierre et Marie Curie (1992 — 1994)
• Bachelor Université Pierre et Marie Curie (1990 — 1992)
• Master's degree Ensae ParisTech (1990 — 1995)
• Master's degree ESCP Europe (1987 — 1990)

Companies

• Director EDHEC-Risk Institute (2015)
• Scientific Director EDHEC-Risk Institute (2003 — 2015)
• Visiting Faculty Member Princeton University (2011 — 2012)
• Assistant Professor University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business (2000 — 2003)
• Graduate Research And Teaching Assistant University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (1997 — 2000)
• Assistant Professor EDHEC Business School (1995 — 1997)

Skills

• Strategic Asset Allocation
• Financial Engineering
• Portfolio Optimization