LeBow College of Business, Drexel University      

Stratakis Chair Professor in Corporate Governance and Accountability: December 2021 – present

Academic Director Gupta Governance Institute: December 2021 – present

Bayes (previously Cass) Business School, City University of London      

Interim Dean: June 2019 – December 2021

Vice Dean: January 2018 – May 2019

Head of the Faculty of Finance: May 2014 – December 2017

Professor of Finance: July 2013 – present

London Business School      

Associate Professor of Finance (with tenure): July 2007 – June 2013

Assistant Professor of Finance: August 2000 – June 2007

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

• “Shareholder Activism in Small-Cap Newly-Public Firms,” with Emmanuel Pezier, Financial Analysts Journal 80, 52–73 (April 2024) 

• “Mandatory Financial Disclosure and M&A Activity,” with Marcelo Ortiz, Caspar David Peter and Francisco Urzúa, Review of Financial Studies 36, 4788–4823 (December 2023)

• "Institutional Debt Holder Governance" with Aneel Keswani and Anh Tran, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (September 2021).

• "Competition for Managers, Corporate Governance and Incentive Compensation" with Viral Acharya and Marc Gabarro, Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting (May 2021).

• "Marking to Market and Inefficient Investment Decisions" with Clemens Otto, Management Science (August 2018).

• "Employment Protection and Takeovers" with Olivier Dessaint and Andrey Golubov, Journal of Financial Economics (August 2017).

• "Seeking Alpha: Excess Risk Taking and Competition for Managerial Talent" with Viral Acharya and Marco Pagano, Review of Financial Studies (October 2016).

• "Labor Protection and Leverage" with Elena Simintzi and Vikrant Vig, Review of Financial Studies (February 2015).

• "Does Family Control Matter? International Evidence from the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis" with Karl Lins and Hannes Wagner, Review of Financial Studies (October 2013).

• "Corporate Pension Plans as Takeover Deterrents" with Joao Cocco, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (August 2013).

• "Securitization, Disclosure and Liquidity" with Marco Pagano, Review of Financial Studies (August 2012).

• "The Life-Cycle of Family Ownership" with Julian Franks, Colin Mayer and Hannes Wagner, Review of Financial Studies (June 2012).

• "Credit Ratings Failures and Policy Options" with Marco Pagano, Economic Policy (April 2010).

• "Corporate Governance Externalities" with Viral Acharya, Review of Finance, (January 2010). 

• "Corporate Governance Reforms in Continental Europe” with Luca Enriques, Journal of Economic Perspectives (Winter 2007).

• "The Corporate Governance of Defined Benefit Pension Plans: Evidence from the United Kingdom" with Joao Cocco, Financial Analysts Journal (January 2007).

• "Shareholder Protection, Stock Market Development, and Politics" with Marco Pagano, Journal of the European Economic Association (April 2006).

• "The Political Economy of Corporate Governance" with Marco Pagano, American Economic Review (September 2005).

• "Managers, Workers, and Corporate Control" with Marco Pagano, Journal of Finance (April 2005). 

• "Cross-Country Determinants of Mergers and Acquisitions" with Stefano Rossi, Journal of Financial Economics (November 2004). 

• "Governance with Poor Investor Protection: Evidence from Top Executive Turnover in Italy" Journal of Financial Economics (April 2002). 

• "The Political Economy of Finance" with Marco Pagano, Oxford Review of Economic Policy (Winter 2001).

BOOK CHAPTERS

• • "Endogenous Political Institutions and Financial Development" with Thomas Lambert, in: Thorsten Beck and Ross Levine Eds., Handbook of Finance and Development, EE Elgar, 2018, 477–501.

  • "The governance motive in cross-border mergers and acquisitions" with Stefano Rossi, in: Greg Gregoriou and Luc Renneboog Eds., Corporate Governance and Regulatory Impact on Mergers and Acquisitions, 2007, Elsevier Finance, Academic Press, 43-70.

  • "The History of Corporate Ownership in Italy" with Alexander Aganin, in: Randall K. Morck Ed., The History of Corporate Governance Around the World, University of Chicago Press, 2005, 325-361.  

  • "The Eclipse of the U.S. Tire Industry" with Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales, in: Steven Kaplan Ed., Merger and Productivity, University of Chicago Press, 2000, 51-86.