Maxime Bonelli

Maxime Bonelli is an Assistant Professor of Finance at London Business School. His research primarily focuses on Corporate Finance and Asset Management. Specifically, Maxime studies the factors behind the organisation of the financial sector and the resulting effects on the real economy. Maxime completed his first PhD in Mathematics in 2016 at the prestigious National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria). He subsequently worked as a quantitative researcher in the asset management industry for several years, before returning to academia to complete his second PhD in Finance from HEC, Paris.

Maxime has won several academic awards, including the best PhD thesis award by the HEC Paris Foundation. He was also a finalist in the BlackRock’s Applied Research Award, and the recipient of the European Finance Association Doctoral Best Paper Prize and the SUERF/UniCredit Foundation Research Prize. Alongside featuring in the Financial Times, Maxime has also written a number of papers, both individually and in collaboration with other noted academics.