Jörg Rocholl
Interim President and Dean of Faculty, Full Professor, Ernst & Young Chair in Governance and Compliance
Jörg Rocholl has been the president of ESMT since July 2011. He joined ESMT in July of 2007 as an associate professor. In July 2010 he was promoted to full professor and awarded the first Ernst & Young Chair in Governance and Compliance. In September 2010 he was named as the associate dean of faculty and in April 2011, dean of faculty. Jörg holds both his PhD in Finance and Economics and his MPhil from Columbia Business School and received his “Diplom-Ökonom mit Auszeichnung” (Economics degree with distinction) from the Universität Witten/Herdecke in Germany.
Previously he was at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he taught EMBA, MBA, and BSBA courses in Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurial Finance, and International Finance.
Jörg’s research interests are in the areas of Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, and Financial Intermediation. Currently, he is researching the impact of political connections on firm value, the functioning of the interbank lending market, and the raising of funds in capital markets through initial public offerings (IPOs). His research has been accepted for publication in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies.
Jörg also worked with Boston Consulting Group in Frankfurt and London and Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and New York. Furthermore, he has been a visiting researcher at the Bundesbank’s Economic Research Center in Frankfurt. Jörg received the Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award and was awarded with the Lamfalussy Fellowship from the European Central Bank; several research grants from Columbia Business School, Kenan-Flagler Business School, and the FDIC; the Weatherspoon Teaching Award at Kenan-Flagler Business School; and a grant from the Westphal Foundation to conduct research in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong.
Jörg's research has been portrayed in leading international media such as New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Financial Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Börsen-Zeitung, Deutsche Welle TV, and ARD.
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