David Lando is Professor of Finance at Copenhagen Business School.

He holds a Master's degree from the joint Mathematics-Economics program at the University of Copenhagen and a PhD in Statistics from Cornell University.

His main area of research in finance is credit risk modelling and risk management and some of his work has appeared in Econometrica, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and Mathematical Finance.

In the period from 2012 to 2022 he was the director of the Center for Financial Frictions (FRIC) funded by the Danish National Research Foundation. From 2014 to 2018 he served as vice chairman and from 2018 to 2020 as chairman of the board of the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finanstilsynet).

He is the author of a monograph on credit risk modeling published by Princeton University Press. He has been a visiting scholar at among other places Princeton University, the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, The Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Before joining the Copenhagen Business School, he was a professor with special responsibilities at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Copenhagen.