Andrei Kirilenko

Andrei Kirilenko is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Finance at the Cambridge Judge Business School, the Founding Director of the Cambridge Centre for Finance, Technology and Regulation, and a Research Fellow in the Financial Economics Programme of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Prior to joining the University of Cambridge Judge Business School in 2019, he was the Director of the Centre for Global Finance and Technology at the Imperial College Business School. Prior to joining Imperial in 2015, he was a Professor of the Practice of Finance at MIT Sloan and Co-Director of the MIT Center for Finance and Policy. Prior to MIT, Kirilenko served (2010-2012) as Chief Economist of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) where he used modern analytical tools and methods to design and enforce an effective regulatory regime of financial markets. Before CFTC Kirilenko spent twelve years at the International Monetary Fund working on financial crises around the world. Andrei received his PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania with a specialization in Finance from the Wharton School.