Keynote Speaker 2024
Victoria Ivashina
Victoria Ivashina is the Lovett-Learned Professor of Finance and Head of the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. She also serves as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Professor Ivashina co-founded and co-leads Harvard Business School’s Private Capital Project and several executive education programs in the private equity area. She also developed the HBS Online Alternative Investments program. Professor Ivashina is a co-author of the books Patient Capital: The Challenges and Promises of Long-Term Investing and Private Equity: A Case Book.
Her research covers a broad spectrum of financial intermediation, including corporate credit markets, global banking operations, asset allocation by pension funds and insurance companies, and value creation by private equity and debt. Professor Ivashina currently serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Finance. She is an independent trustee of the Carlyle AlpInvest Private Markets Fund. Professor Ivashina holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the NYU Stern School of Business.