Eugene Nivorozhkin is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Finance at SSEES, UCL. Prior to joining University College London, Eugene worked as an Assistant Professor in Finance at University of Groningen, University of Gothenburg, and held visiting positions at the Wharton Business School of University of Pennsylvania, the Copenhagen Business School, Uppsala University, the Bank of Finland’s Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT), City University London, Brunel University, Jagiellonian University, Freie Universität Berlin, and Corvinus University of Budapest. Eugene has over 20 peer-review publications in international academic journals, actively provides commentary in mass media and engages in consulting services for public and private organisations. His research interests span theoretical and empirical work in the areas of corporate finance, banking regulation, market for corporate control, capital markets, applied labour economics, economics of education, and economics of crime. Eugene graduated with MSc in Economics and Mathematics from Rostov State University (Russia) and received PhD in Economics from University of Gothenburg (Sweden).