Marcel Olbert

Marcel teaches in our LBS MBA programme and elective portfolio, and he has been named as one of the 2024 Poets & Quants Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors. 

Having earned his doctorate at Germany’s University of Mannheim, Marcel’s broad range of experience includes investment banking within the M&A advisory group of JP Morgan London, strategy consulting with Roland Berger and international tax and private equity with PwC and Flick Gocke Schaumburg. His research interests focus on the real effects of corporate taxation and disclosure regulation – examining how multinational businesses respond to incentives that stem from their regulatory and macroeconomic environment.

Marcel currently serves as an Associate Editor at the European Accounting Review. His work has been accepted for publication in The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, and the Review of Financial Studies.

Marcel’s current research on tax reforms and multinational firm investment as well as on carbon taxes and carbon leakage in developing countries is featured by the Wheeler Institute for Business and Development. Marcel has received competitive grants including from The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and regularly co-hosts conferences bringing thought leaders from leading academic institutions and practice. Marcel regularly disseminates his research out via blogs, videos, and podcasts.

Marcel is seeking applications for professional research assistantships.