Corpo docente

Armin SCHWIENBACHER

Professor

Corporate finance, entrepreneurial finance, crowdfunding, venture capital, fintech

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Armin SCHWIENBACHER

Academia

Innovation

Centro de pesquisa

Finance & Accounting Insights on Risk and Regulation

Localização

Lille

Disciplina

Finance

Armin Schwienbacher is a permanent professor of finance at SKEMA Business School since 2010. He previously worked at the Université Lille 2 (France), Louvain School of Management (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) and Universiteit van Amsterdam (the Netherlands), and as guest lecturer at Duisenberg School of Finance (the Netherlands), Rotterdam School of Management (the Netherlands) and the European School of Management and Technology (Germany). He obtained his PhD in 2003 at the University of Namur (Belgium) on exit strategies of venture capital funds. He was a visiting scholar at the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley, USA) in 2001-2002 and visiting professor at Schulich School of Business (York University, Canada) in 2014-2015. Mr. Schwienbacher regularly teaches courses in corporate finance and entrepreneurial finance. He has presented his research on crowdfunding, venture capital and various other topics in corporate finance at many universities, financial institutions and international conferences, and his work has been published in several international academic journals.

Education
2003
Ph.D. in Finance, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix, Belgium
Experience
Full-time academic positions
2010 - 2016
Professor of Finance, Université de Lille, France
Since 2010
Professor of Finance, SKEMA Business School, France
2006 - 2010
Associate Professor of Finance, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
2003 - 2009
Assistant Professor of Finance, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Other academic affiliations and appointments
2016 - 2022
Director of Research Center FAIRR, SKEMA Business School, France
2009 - 2015
Guest Faculty, Duisenberg School of Finance, The Netherlands
2009 - 2011
Research Fellow, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001 - 2002
Visiting Scholar, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, United States of America
Research grants, Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
2020
AOM Best Paper in Entrepreneurial Cognition
2018
Best Paper Award 2018 at the 1st International FinTech, InsurTech & Blockchain Forum, Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab, Intl FinTech & Blockchain Forum, University of Zurich
2018
KSG Entrepreneurship Research Award 2018, The Karl Schlecht Foundation, Germany
2017
"Lauréat de Prix d'Excellence" of the Université Côte d'Azur in the category "Best Paper Award", Université Côte d'Azur
2017
Citation of Excellence Award at Emerald Group Publishing for the published article "Crowdfunding: Tapping the Right Crowd", Emerald Group Publishing
2016
Best Paper Award for the best paper published in Revue Finance in 2015 for the paper "Overcollateralization in Corporate Securitizations" (with I. Riachi), Revue Finance
2014
Best Paper Award at SKEMA Business School (academic year 2013-2014; Grande Ecole program) for research work published on crowdfunding, SKEMA Business School
2011
Best Teacher Award at Duisenberg School of Finance, MSc Finance and Law program (academic year 2010-2011) for the course Entrepreneurial Finance, Duisenberg School of Finance, The Netherlands
2010
Best Teacher Award at Duisenberg School of Finance, LLM Finance and Law program (academic year 2009-2010) for the course Entrepreneurial Finance, Duisenberg School of Finance, The Netherlands
Other research activities
Co-Editor
Since 2021
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Senior or Associate Editor
Since 2015
Finance
PhD Supervision
Since 2021
M. AWUNI, SKEMA Business School, PhD thesis, Thesis director
2022
B. SONG, SKEMA Business School, PhD thesis, Thesis director
2018
F. LOPEZ DE SILANES MOLINA, SKEMA Business School, Habilitated for thesis direction, Thesis director