Nadya Malenko

Nadya Malenko is Professor of Finance and Wargo Family Faculty Fellow at Boston College Carroll School of Management. She serves as President of Finance Theory Group, Research Associate at NBER, Research Fellow at CEPR, and Research Member of ECGI. Her research focuses on corporate finance, corporate governance, private equity, and organizational economics, with significant contributions to understanding board dynamics, shareholder voting, and proxy advisory firms.

• Ph.D. in Finance, Stanford University
• MA in Economics (summa cum laude), New Economic School
• MSc in Applied Mathematics (with honors), Lomonosov Moscow State University

Her research explores:

• Corporate board communication and decision-making
• Shareholder democracy and voting mechanisms
• Proxy advisory firm economics
• Private equity governance
• Organizational structure implications
• Indexing's governance effects

Recent publications examine board dynamics over startup life cycles, proxy voting controversies, and shareholder democracy. Her work has received multiple Brattle Group prizes, WFA and CICF Best Paper Awards, and ECGI Finance Prizes.

• Associate Editor: Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies
• Leadership roles: American Finance Association, European Finance Association, Midwest Finance Association
• Featured in Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Financial Times, and Forbes

As Editor of ECGI Working Paper Finance Series and active conference participant, she shapes academic discourse through committee roles at major finance conferences and mentoring doctoral students.