Suleyman Basak

Suleyman Basak is Professor of Finance at London Business School and is recognised as one of the world's leading experts on asset pricing and risk management. His influential research focuses on financial innovation, asset allocation, and market imperfections, addressing issues related to Value at Risk-based risk management, benchmarking, portfolio insurance, credit risk, incentive problems in institutional asset management, and mispricing, arbitrageurs and heterogeneous beliefs in financial markets.

Suleyman has won a number of awards for his teaching at London Business School, including the General Excellence Teaching Award, the Best Teacher Masters in Finance Award, and the Best Teacher Masters in Financial Analysis Award. Prior to joining LBS, he was at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the David Hauck Teaching Award and the Wharton Graduate and Undergraduate Divisions Excellence in Teaching Awards.

Previously, Suleyman was a faculty member at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, held a visiting position at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, and acted as a consultant to Goldman Sachs.