Karl Lins

at London Business School

Spencer Fox Eccles Chair in Banking and Professor of Finance at David Eccles School of Business

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  • London Business School
  • David Eccles School of Business

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London Business School

Visiting Professor of Finance

BS (Texas) MBA (UCLA) PhD (North Carolina) Karl V. Lins is Visiting Professor of Finance from the University of Utah where he is the Spencer Fox Eccles Chair in Banking and Professor of Finance at the David Eccles School of Business. Karl researches primarily in the areas of international corporate governance and capital markets, and presents his research at universities and academic conferences worldwide. Karl has published his papers in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Financial Management, the Journal of Corporate Finance, and the Review of Asset Pricing Studies. His research on family firm performance around the world during the financial crisis was awarded the Best Paper prize at the European Financial Association annual meeting in 2012. His research on lack of transparency and active portfolio management in emerging markets was given the 2014 Best Paper Award by the Review of Asset Pricing Studies.

Karl has been an annual visitor to London Business School since 2007, teaching both the Project and Infrastructure Finance course and the Advanced Corporate Finance course in the executive education programme over these years. He has also done executive teaching at INSEAD, the Duisenberg School of Finance, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Southern Methodist University, University of Utah, and several institutions in Mexico. He has earned several awards for excellence in teaching at the University of North Carolina, the University of Utah, and the Duisenberg School of Finance. Prior to starting his academic career, Karl worked as a petroleum engineer for Conoco Inc. and in corporate finance and international marketing positions for forest-products producer Boise Cascade Corporation.

Karl earned a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1985, an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA in 1989, and a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000 where he was named the school’s Outstanding Doctoral Student.

David Eccles School of Business

Karl researches primarily in the areas of international corporate governance and capital markets, and presents his research at academic and practitioner conferences worldwide. Karl has published his papers in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Financial Management, and the Journal of Corporate Finance. His teaching expertise is in the areas of corporate finance and capital markets in an international setting, with an emphasis on emerging markets finance. Karl earned a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1985, an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA in 1989, and a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000 where he was named the school’s Outstanding Doctoral Student. He has been honored with the Brady Superior Teaching Award and the ASUU Student’s Choice Teaching Award at the University of Utah as well as a Ph.D. teaching award at the University of North Carolina. Prior to starting his academic career, Karl worked as an engineer for Conoco Inc. and after his MBA worked in corporate treasury, financial analyst, and international sales positions for Boise Cascade Corporation. Karl’s corporate experience at Boise Cascade includes managing an international syndicate of banks and completing international bond offerings while in the treasury department and opening up distribution in Mexico for business and printing paper during the early 1990s and continuing through the Mexican peso crisis of 1994. He has done executive teaching for London Business School, INSEAD, Duisenberg School of Finance, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Southern Methodist University, the University of Utah, the OneMBA global program at EGADE in Monterrey, Mexico, IBM Business Services in Mexico City, and AvalonBay Real Estate Investment Trust in Washington D.C.

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