Dr. Per Strömberg is the Managing Director of the Institute of Financial Research in Stockholm (SIFR).  He is also Professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics, and an Adjunct Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in Financial Economics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997.  Between 1997 and 2004, Dr. Strömberg was a faculty member at the University of Chicago.  He is also a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a research affiliate of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and a research associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).  

Dr. Strömberg is an internationally recognized acedemic expert on private equity and venture capital.  His research has  been acknowledged by the 2001 Brattle Prize for best corporate finance paper published in the Journal of Finance, the 2004 NASDAQ award for best paper on capital formation at the Western Finance Association meetings, the 2006 Researcher of the Year award at the Stockholm School of Economics, and the JFI Stuart Greenbaum Prize for the most significant paper published in the Journal of Financial Intermediation 2007.  He has also won the best teacher award in the Chicago Booth School European executive MBA programs in 2004 and 2005, and was named "Professor of the year" by the Asia program in 2006.