Victor Lyonnet
Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth
Professor Victor Lyonnet is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance at Chicago Booth.
Professor Lyonnet is visiting from The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business where he is an Assistant Professor of Finance. His research interests include entrepreneurship, corporate finance, financial intermediation, and life insurance.
Professor Lyonnet earned a Ph.D. in economics from École Polytechnique/CREST. During his Ph.D. studies, he was a visiting scholar at HEC Paris (2016-2018), Harvard University (2015, 2017), and Columbia University (2014). He received the 2018 AFFI FNEGE best thesis award in corporate finance.
Outside of academia, Professor Lyonnet worked as a researcher at the Bank of France (2016) and the International Monetary Fund (2014).