Thomas Noe

Thomas Noe is the Ernest Butten Professor of Management Studies at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and a professorial fellow at Balliol College. His research focuses on incentives, information asymmetry, and governance systems in corporate finance. He has published over 60 papers in top journals and serves on editorial boards of the Journal of Banking and Finance and Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. His expertise includes financial security design, CEO compensation, and strategic proxy voting.

Professor Noe has held academic positions globally, including at Tulane University and MIT. He advises organizations like the Federal Reserve Bank and lectures at industry conferences worldwide. Awards include recognition from the Western Finance Association, China International Conference, and Australasian Finance and Banking Conference. His teaching emphasizes core financial economics models while addressing complexities like collateral and asymmetric information.

Research highlights include analyzing debt structures in private acquisitions, rank-based incentives’ impact on risk-taking, and competitive selection biases. Current work explores strategic voting dynamics and corporate governance mechanisms.