Martin Schmalz
Martin Schmalz is Professor of Finance and Economics at Saïd Business School,
University of Oxford. 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)
.
Prof. Schmalz is the Academic Director of Oxford’s Blockchain Strategy Programme,
and co-director of the Open Banking & AI in Finance Programme.
He co-authored “The Business of Big Data: How to Create Lasting Value in the Age of
AI”, and was featured as one of the “40 under 40” best business school professors
worldwide at the age of 33. He was invited to present 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.
His prize-winning research focuses on corporate governance and asset management. 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.
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