Stephan Dieckmann

Stephan Dieckmann serves as Senior Lecturer of Finance at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, teaching MBA, Undergraduate, and Executive Education programs since 2008. He previously served as Deputy Vice Dean for the MBA Program (2013-2022), leading academic administration and curriculum innovation.

He earned his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, with prior faculty experience at Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business and industry roles in bond markets and treasury management.

His research focuses on the intersection of asset pricing and insurance economics, featuring rare event risk and credit risk as core specialties. Key domains include dynamic asset pricing, financial econometrics, fixed income markets, insurance economics, and risk management, supported by publications in leading scholarly journals.

Teaching excellence has been recognized through:

• MBA Core Curriculum Teaching Award (2014, 2018)
• Wharton’s Teaching Excellence Award (annually since 2018)
• Dean and Directors award (2018)

Prior to Wharton, he built industry experience in financial markets while contributing to academic research on rare event risks. No student advising details or grant information are specified in the source material.