Formerly with: Wharton School; Fuqua School of Business, Duke University; London School of Economics; Indian School of Business, Hyderabad; New Economic School, Moscow. Currently: Professor of Finance, London Business School; Head of Finance Department and Academic Director, Coller Institute of Private Equity. Research Fellow, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). Member, Scientific Committee, Banque de France Foundation. Member of the Board, COFIDE. Member of the Advisory Board: Trapezia EIS II; European School of Management. Regular speaker at major conferences and universities. Associate Editor, The Journal of Financial Intermediation; Editor, Private Equity Findings. Author of several papers in major finance and economics journals. Interests include: corporate governance, private equity, privatization, bankruptcy, IPOs and innovation policy.