Erwan Morellec

Expertise Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Fintech, Sustainable Finance, and Banking. Erwan Morellec is a Full Professor of Finance at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the holder of a Swiss Finance Institute senior chair. He is the director of the Finance Institute at EPFL, the Head of the Swiss Finance Institute nation-wide PhD Program, and a CEPR Research Fellow. He holds a PhD in Finance Summa cum Laude from HEC Paris.Erwan is an expert in corporate finance, corporate governance, and sustainable finance and has taught courses on these subjects at EPFL, HEC Lausanne, MIT Sloan, and the University of Rochester. He has published extensively in the leading academic journals in finance, such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, and Management Science, and his research has been presented at major academic conferences and seminar series around the world. He has received several research, teaching, and leadership awards and has been the recipient of several research grants.Erwan is a co-founder of the Finance Institute at EPFL and served as its director from 2009 to 2012, returning to the role in 2024. During his first tenure, he played a key role in developing both the Institute and its Master in Financial Engineering. He was also instrumental in establishing the PhD in Finance at EPFL and the Swiss Finance Institute’s nationwide PhD program.PERSONAL WEBPAGE Link to my personal webpage Teaching & PhD PhD Students Florian Jean Charles Perusset Past EPFL PhD Students Philip Valta, Ngoc Giang Hoang, Stefano Colonnello, Francesca Maria Zucchi, Yalda Sigrist, Damien Olivier Klossner, Suzanne Vissers, Natalia Rostova Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Thomas Antonius Geelen Courses Introduction to finance FIN-401 The course provides provides an introduction to valuation techniques, investment decisions, asset valuation and portfolio choice, financing decisions, derivatives pricing, and sustainable finance. Principles of finance MGT-482 The course provides a market-oriented framework for analyzing the major financial decisions made by firms. It provides an introduction to valuation techniques, investment decisions, asset valuation, financing decisions, and sustainable finance. Awards Leadership Award U. Rochester 2002 Barclays Global Investors Award 2006 Listed in Who's Who in the World 2012 Dauphine Amundi Research Prize in Asset Management Université Dauphine Paris 2016 ACA-Award for outstanding academic performance in Accounting, Corporate Finance, Controlling, or Auditing University of St Gallen 2021 Best conference paper International Conference of the French Finance Association 2022