Dr Laurens Swinkels, Executive Director at Robeco & Associate Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Laurens Swinkels is Associate Professor of Finance at Erasmus University in Rotterdam and Executive Director and Head of Solutions Research at Robeco Institutional Asset Management. His areas of expertise include allocation research and empirical asset pricing. He teaches Finance courses and has published his academic work in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Financial Economics. Prior to re-joining Robeco in 2016, he was a Researcher at Norges Bank Investment Management. He was a Researcher at Robeco from 2004 to 2012 and at PensionFactory and APG Asset Management from 1999 to 2004. Laurens is a member of the Research Committee and Board of Inquire Europe. He holds a PhD in Finance and a Master’s in Econometrics from Tilburg University in the Netherlands.