Olivier Dessaint
Assistant Professor of Finance at Rotman School of Management
Assistant Professor of Finance at INSEAD Business School
Biography
Rotman School of Management
Bio
Olivier DESSAINT is an assistant professor of finance at the Rotman School of Management. Olivier holds a Ph.D. in finance from HEC Paris and teaches corporate finance in the first year of the MBA program. His research interests include corporate finance and behavioral finance. His work has been published in top finance journals. Prior to joining academia, Olivier was an investment banker at BNP Paribas.
Academic Positions
2014/current Assistant Professor of Finance; Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
2010/2014 PhD Student and Lecturer in Finance; HEC Paris
INSEAD Business School
Olivier DESSAINT is an assistant professor of finance at INSEAD. His research interests include corporate finance and behavioral finance. His work has been published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Review of Finance. He currently teaches in the MBA and PhD programs.
Olivier holds a PhD in finance from HEC Paris. Prior to joining INSEAD, he was a faculty member at the Rotman School of Management from the University of Toronto in Canada. Before joining academia, he was also an investment banker at BNP Paribas. He was a part of the M&A advisory teams in Paris and Madrid.
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