Lasse Heje Pedersen

Lasse Heje Pedersen is a principal at AQR Capital Management and a finance professor at Copenhagen Business School and NYU. Lasse has served as Director of the American Finance Association, in the Liquidity Working Group meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to address liquidity issues, in the New York Fed’s Monetary Policy Panel, on the Economic Advisory Boards of NASDAQ and FTSE, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Finance, Journal of Economic Theory, The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. His academic awards include the Bernácer Prize to the best E.U. economist under 40 years of age, the Banque de France-TSE Prize, Fama-DFA Prizes, the Michael Brennan Award, the Brattle Prize, and the Graham and Dodd Award. Lasse received his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Copenhagen and his Ph.D. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Lasse’s latest book is “Efficiently Inefficient: How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are Determined.”