David Robinson

Professor of Finance and J. Re Distinguished Professor of International Management at Fuqua School of Business

Distinguished Affiliate Professor, ESMT Berlin and Professor of Finance, J. Rex Distinguished Professor, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University at ESMT

Schools

  • Fuqua School of Business
  • ESMT

Links

Biography

Fuqua School of Business

Academic Area: Finance

Teaching / Research Interests

Entrepreneurial Finance, Empirical Corporate Finance

Bio

David T. Robinson is a Professor of Finance and the J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Professor of International Management at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of private equity, venture capital and entrepreneurial finance. His work has appeared in leading academic journals in finance and economics and has been featured in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and The Economist. 

Professor Robinson is a scientific advisor to the Swedish House of Finance in Stockholm, Sweden, the Private Equity Research Council, the Private Capital Research Institute, as well as a number of private equity firms and technology startups.  He is the former Vice Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Private Capital.

He earned his PhD and MBA degrees at the University of Chicago, a Master of Science from the London School of Economics,  a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an honorary doctorate from the Stockholm School of Economics. Prior to joining Duke University he was a Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia University.

ESMT

David Robinson joined ESMT Berlin in 2016 as a distinguished affiliate professor. He is also a professor of finance as well as the J. Rex Distinguished Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. David received both his PhD as well as his MBA from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago in 2001. He is also a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

David is an expert in corporate finance and entrepreneurial finance. His research has appeared in top journals in economics and finance, including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Financial Management and Journal of Law and Economics, and he has been covered widely in the media. He teaches in a number of the Duke’s programs and is a past winner of the Daimler-Chrysler Award for Teaching Excellence.

Education

  • PhD (The University of Chicago)
  • Dr.h.c. (Stockholm School of Economics)
  • MBA (The University of Chicago)
  • MSc (University of London)
  • BA (The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Research

Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital and Private Equity, and Optimism

Expertise

Topics

corporate responsibility, entrepreneurship, finance, innovation (incl. strategic innovation, technology-enabled innovation), private equity, venture capital

Languages

English

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