Biography

Steven Ongena is a professor of banking in the Department of Finance at the University of Zurich, a senior chair at the Swiss Finance Institute, a research professor at KU Leuven, a research professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU Business School, and a research fellow in financial economics of CEPR.

He is also a research professor at the Deutsche Bundesbank, a regular research visitor at the European Central Bank and Norges Bank, a fellow of CFS, and the chair of the Research Advisory Council of SAFE. Before moving to Zurich, he taught at CentER-Tilburg University and BI Norwegian Business School and was at the University of Oregon (PhD), SOR-BE (OF-1), University of Alberta (MA), and KU Leuven (MBA, Hir).

He has published more than 50 papers in refereed academic journals, including in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Management Science and Review of Finance, among other journals.

He co-authored, with Hans Degryse and Moshe Kim, the graduate textbook entitled Microeconometrics of Banking: Methods, Applications and Results published by Oxford University Press.