Biography

Steven Ongena is a professor in banking at the University of Zurich and the Swiss Finance Institute in Switzerland. He is also a research fellow of CEPR and a research professor at KU Leuven.

He has published more than 55 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, and he has published more than 50 papers in books and other collections.

In 2012 he received a NYU-Fordham-RPI Rising Star in Finance Award.