Geert Bekaert Geert Bekaert teaches global investments and asset management at Columbia Business School. His research focuses on international finance, emerging markets, empirical asset pricing, and portfolio management, and has been supported by NSF grants. He ha published over sixty articles in top academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies, among others. He is Co-Managing Editor at the Journal of Banking and Finance, is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, consults for the European Central Bank and litigation support firms, and is associated with several FinTech ventures. Read More Read Less