Alexander Dyck, PhD, BA

Bio

Alexander Dyck is a Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the Rotman School of Management and holds the Manulife Financial Chair in Financial Services. He teaches Corporate Finance in the PhD program, and Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity in the MBA program. From 1993-2003 he was Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School where he taught in the MBA, doctoral and executive education programs. In 2009-2010 he was a visiting scholar in Finance at INSEAD, France. In 2016-2017 he is a Visiting Professor of Finance in the Yale School of Management and Senior Research Fellow at the Yale Law School.

His wide ranging research interests include corporate governance, taxation, privatization, regulation, corporate social responsibility, pensions and institutional investors. He has published extensively and his research has been featured in the press, including The New York Times, the Financial Times, and the Globe and Mail. Dyck is an Academic Director of the Directors Education Program, on the academic advisory board of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, has been a board member and member of the research committee of the International Center for Pension Management, and is Director of the Capital Markets Institute.

In 1993, Dyck earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and in 1988 received his honours BA from the University of Western Ontario. He is a multiple winner of Professor of the year by the graduating MBA students and the recipient of the Martin Award for Teaching.