About

Professor B. Espen Eckbo holds the Tuck Centennial Chair of Finance. He is also Faculty Director of Tuck's Lindenauer Forum for Governance Research, which he founded in 1999. He teaches advanced MBA courses in the areas of corporate finance, corporate takeovers and international corporate governance.

Professor Eckbo, who received a PhD in financial economics from the University of Rochester in 1981, has published extensively in the top finance journals in the areas of corporate finance, investment banking, and the market for corporate control. He is a recipient of an honorary doctoral degree from the Norwegian School of Economics, the prestigious Batterymarch Fellowship, as well as several outstanding-paper awards. He is a research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and a frequent keynote and invited seminar speaker. He was called in 2009 by the U.S. Congress to testify on issues concerning the government’s large equity ownership positions in companies rescued under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

In 2005, Professor Eckbo assisted the Norwegian Government Pension Fund - Global, the world's largest institutional shareholder in global equity markets (with assets of $760 billion in 2013), with developing much of its corporate governance principles and strategy. This fund has since been partnering with Tuck’s Lindenauer Forum for Governance Research on a large-scale project investigating cross-border impediments to shareholder voting.