Dr. Hannes Wagner

Hannes Wagner is Full Professor of Finance at Bocconi University, a Fellow at the IGIER Institute for Economic Research, and an appointed Member of the ECGI European Corporate Governance Institute. Hannes’ main research interest lies in institutional investors, shareholder engagement, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility. He pioneered research in the Panama Papers. He has published extensively in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Finance, and has been frequently featured in major media outlets, including the Economist, the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, and Harvard Business Review. His recent research on active investing has been sponsored by the Government Pension Fund of Norway. He received numerous awards for research excellence, including the Michael J. Brennan Runner Up Award from the Review of Financial Studies, the inaugural AAM CAMRI Prize in Asset Management, as well as best paper prizes from the European Finance Association, the Southwestern Finance Association, and the Financial Management Association. Hannes has received numerous teaching excellence awards while teaching executives and non-executives at Bocconi, National University of Singapore, Rotterdam School of Management, University of Oxford, the Duisenberg School of Finance, and University of Munich. Hannes received his PhD in Finance from Ludwig Maximilians University Munich in 2005.