Christopher Hennessy

Christopher Hennessy is Professor of Finance and Chair of the Finance Faculty at London Business School. His research focuses on information economics, moral hazard and debt, debt restructuring, tax planning, financing dynamics, and credit risk. His work has been published in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. He is a three-time winner of the Brattle Prize for outstanding corporate finance research, was named one of four Rising Stars in Financial Economics in 2010, and received a European Research Council Starting Independent Researcher Grant to study the effect of tax changes on corporate financing decisions.

Christopher serves as Editor of the Review of Corporate Finance Studies and Associate Editor of the Review of Finance, Finance Research Letters, and Management Science. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London and the European Corporate Governance Institute, and is a regular visitor at the Vienna Graduate School of Finance and the University of Paris-Dauphine.

Prior to joining LBS in 2008, Christopher was Associate Professor and Finance Area Chair at the Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, having joined as Assistant Professor in 2001. He also held a visiting position at UCLA Anderson School of Business. Earlier in his career, he was a Senior Consultant at KPMG Peat Marwick and a Research Associate at the United States Treasury Office of Tax Analysis. He holds a Master of Public Affairs and a PhD in Economics from Princeton University.