Prof. Dr. Lutz Johanning

Lutz Johanning holds the Chair of Empirical Capital Market Research at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Germany.  

After his studies in business administration at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main, he worked as postgraduate research assistant at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, where he received his PhD in 1998. He held the position of assistant professor at the Institute for Capital Market Research and Finance at this university and was promoted to professor in 2002. Until 2007 he was professor of the Endowed Chair of Asset Management at the European Business School, International University, Schloss Reichartshausen. In 2006 and 2007, he spent one semester as visiting professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, where he taught a graduate course in portfolio risk management.
Professor Johanning’s research interests are in the areas empirical capital market research and best execution, financial risk management as well as emotional finance. 

Professor Johanning is a member of the Board of Directors of the EDG AG, which focuses on the rating, the price validation and the risk classification of structured products. Since January 2008, he has been a member of the Exchange Council of Eurex Deutschland.