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Josef Zechner, Biography
Josef Zechner is Professor of Finance and Investments at WU Vienna University of
Economics and Business and Director of the PhD
Program Vienna
Graduate School of Finance (VGSF). He is a full
member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a CEPR
(Centre for Economic Policy Research) Research Fellow. Before joining the WU Vienna University of
Economics and Business, he was Professor of Finance at the University of Vienna.
Josef Zechner has published in leading finance and economics journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Political Economy and the Journal of Business. He was the Managing Editor of the Review of Finance from 2003 to 2012. He is also past president of the European Finance Association and the German Finance Association and durrently Vice President elect of the Western Finance Association (WFA).
His research covers a broad range of topics in the areas of corporate finance, banking and asset management. Prof. Zechner has consulted for numerous financial institutions. He is founding partner and a member of the scientific board of Spängler IQAM Invest, an Austrian Asset Management Company.
