Karin S. Thorburn, PhD, Norwegian School of Economics

Karin S. Thorburn is the Research Chair Professor of Finance at the Norwegian School of Economics and a Visiting Professor at The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania. She was previously a faculty member at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Her research, which focuses on corporate governance, takeovers, bankruptcy, and raising capital, is regularly published in the top academic journals. Thorburn is affiliated with the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). She is a councilor of the Society of Financial Studies and was a director of the Executive Committee of the European Finance Association, 2014-2016. In 2016, Thorburn served on a committee appointed by the Norwegian government to assess the equity portion of the $900 billion Government Pension Fund Global. She serves as a director of several corporate and bank boards in Sweden and Norway. Thorburn holds a PhD in financial economics from the Stockholm School of Economics.

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