Lukasz Pomorski

Lukasz Pomorski is the head of ESG research and managing director at AQR Capital Management. Prior to AQR, he was an assistant director for research at the Bank of Canada and an assistant professor of finance at the University of Toronto.

His research on ESG, alpha signals, and portfolio construction has been published in top academic and practitioner journals and won several awards, including the first prize award at 2010 Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Paper Competition, the 2011 Toronto CFA Society and Hillsdale Canadian Investment Research Award, the 2013 Best Paper Award from the Review of Asset Pricing Studies, and the Spangler IQAM Prize for the Best Paper in Investments in 2017.

Lukasz earned a B.A. and M.A. in economics at the Warsaw School of Economics, an M.A. in finance at Tilburg University, and a Ph.D. in finance at the University of Chicago.