Pat Akey

Pat Akey is an Associate Professor at ESSEC Business School where he holds Chair of Excellence for Financial Innovation. He is a member of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He completed his PhD in Finance in 2014 from the London Business School. His research focuses on the political economy of finance and the incentives of firms to engage in pro-social behavior.  He has presented his research at numerous major academic and practitioner conferences and published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies.  He was awarded the 2016 Rising Scholar Award for the best paper by a young researcher published in the Review of Financial Studies and one of the 2021 Brattle Prize Distinguished Paper Awards for one of the best papers in Corporate Finance published in the Journal of Finance.   Major media outlets such as The Economist, Bloomberg, and National Public Radio have cited his work.  He was previously on the faculties of the University of Toronto and INSEAD.