Is a
Professor of Finance at Imperial College.
She was
awarded her PhD from the London School of Economics in 2010, where she was
affiliated with the Financial Markets Group (FMG). She is a research associate
at ECGI and a CEPR research fellow. After graduating Claudia spent time in the
US working within the Department of Finance at the W. P. Carey School of
Business, Arizona State University before moving back to her native Lisbon to
join NOVA school of Business and Economics. Claudia’s research focus is
Corporate Finance and her work has been published in academic journals such as
the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of
Financial Studies. She is also the author of a Corporate Finance textbook in
Portuguese » Finanças da Empresa». In 2019 she was awarded an ERC
grant to study the impact of financial constraints of small firms on firm
growth.
Is a Full Professor of Management at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain) and a Senior Researcher at the London School of Economics (U.K.), leading the Sustainable Development Initiative. His current research focuses on sustainable banking, corporate strategy, innovation, and business cooperation. Professor Forcadell has published numerous articles in leading academic journals (including Long Range Planning, Research Policy, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of World Business, among others), some of which are included in the Financial Times 50 list.