Finance for Executives

Programme Director

Pekka Hietala

Programme Director

Professor of Finance

Professor Hietala received his MBA from the Helsinki School of Economics, his MSc in Industrial Engineering from the Helsinki University of Technology, and his MA in Economics and PhD in Finance from Stanford University. He served as Dean of the INSEAD MBA programme from 2001 until 2004. He has directed and taught in several Executive Education programmes in Europe, Asia and the United States on various topics in finance.

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Faculty

Urs Peyer

Associate Professor of Finance
Dean of Degree Programmes

Urs Peyer holds a PhD in Finance from the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, and a lic.rer.pol. from the University of Berne, Switzerland. Urs Peyer's research interests include empirical corporate finance, corporate governance, executive compensation, internal capital markets, firm diversification and share repurchases.

Urs Peyer’s research interests include, Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation, Empirical Corporate Finance, and Share Repurchases.

Lily Hua Fang

Associate Professor of Finance

Professor Fang’s primary research interest is information markets, i.e., financial intermediation, financial institutions, and the media. She has published numerous studies on the incentives, behaviour and performance of financial analysts, fund managers, and financial institutions in top academic journals such as the Journal and Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies.

Theo Vermaelen

Professor of Finance
The UBS Chair in Investment Banking, endowed in memoriam Henry Grunfeld

Theo Vermaelen is Professor of Finance at INSEAD where he teaches in MBA, PhD and Executive programmes. He is a graduate from the Department of Applied Economics at the Catholic University of Leuven (Commercial Engineer) and obtained an MBA and PhD in Finance from the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.

Dr. Vermaelen has taught at the University of British Columbia, the Catholic University of Leuven, The London Business School, UCLA and the University of Chicago.

Please note programme faculty may change.