Lasse Heje Pedersen

A professor at Copenhagen Business School and New York University and a principal at AQR Capital Management, Lasse Heje Pedersen is a distinguished academic and an asset manager. He has published a number of influential research papers on asset pricing, liquidity risk, and trading strategies, which have been cited by Ben Bernanke and other central bank governors around the world and in thousands of academic and industry papers. He has won a number of awards, including the Bernácer Prize to the best E.U. economist under 40 years of age. Further, he has served in the Liquidity Working Group meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to address liquidity issues during the global financial crisis, the New York Fed's Monetary Policy Panel, the Economic Advisory Boards of NASDAQ and FTSE, as a Director of the American Finance Association, and on the editorial boards of several journals such as the Journal of Finance and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He received his B.S. and M.S. from University of Copenhagen and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Visit his website www.lhpedersen.com for additional material related to his books and research papers.