Frankfurt School is a leading teaching and research institution with ca. 50 professors, complemented by visiting professors and lecturers from all over the world. Finance is Frankfurt School´s largest department – and also the largest one in Germany – with almost 20 professors. Both first-class professors from academia as well as key practitioners from the corporate world make this programme a unique experience for our Master of Finance students.
Erich Barthel
Professor of Corporate Culture & Human Resource Management. Prof. Barthel is Head of the Management Department. Before joining Frankfurt School, he served as Head of the personnel department at a large German bank and as member of the board of an international consulting firm.
Module: Leadership & Intercultural Management
Rita Biswas
Associate Professor in International Finance at University of Albany, New York and Adjunct Professor at Frankfurt School.
Module: International Financial Management
Falko Fecht
DZ Bank Professor of Financial Economics. Prof. Fecht is also Research Professor at Deutsche Bundesbank. Before joining Frankfurt School, he worked with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the European Central Bank and several other central banks.
Module: Financial Markets & Institutions
Eberhard Feess
Professor of Managerial Economics. Prof. Feess is one of the most published German professors and frequently consults with government agencies, firms and governments on regulatory topics. He is Adjunct Research Professor at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand.
Module: Principles of Economics
Yuping Jia
Assistant Professor of Accounting. She has been at Mannheim University as an Assistant Professor after finishing her PhD in Tilburg, NL. At Frankfurt School since 2011, Prof. Jia’s research focuses on financial reporting quality and corporate governance.
Modules: Principles of Accounting, Financial Statement Analysis
Michael H. Grote
Professor of Corporate Finance and Vice President Academic Affairs. Prof. Grote is also Co-head of the Frankfurt Institute for Private Equity and M&A. Before joining Frankfurt School, he was Assistant Professor at Goethe University and Metzler Visiting Professor of International Finance at Wharton School.
Module: Mergers & Acquisitions
Thomas Heidorn
Professor of Bank Management and Head of Centre for Practical Quantitative Finance at Frankfurt School. He is the Head of the expert group on rating methods for structured products at the DVFA (German Association of Financial Analysis and Asset Management) advising corporates and public-sector institutions on the management of derivatives.
Modules: Derivative Analysis, Financial Engineering
Hartmut Kliemt
Professor of Philosophy & Economics and Vice President Research. A philosopher and economist, he has been working with, among others, James Buchanan and Reinhard Selten, two Nobel laureates. Prof. Kliemt is Co-head of a large German science foundation research group looking into priority setting in medicine.
Module: Practical Ethics in Finance
Michael Koetter
Professor of Banking and Finance. Before joining Frankfurt School, he was Professor of International Financial and Monetary Economics at the University of Groningen. Prof. Koetter also worked as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group and as a researcher at Deutsche Bundesbank.
Module: Banking
Jürgen Moormann
Professor of Banking and Head of Frankfurt School’s Process Lab. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal “BIT. Banking and Information Technology” and was, among others, Visiting Professor at Queensland University of Technology and University of Hong Kong.
Module: Operational Risk
Andreas Nick
Professor of Management Practice for Corporate Finance. Before joining Frankfurt School, he was Managing Director and Head of M&A for Sal.Oppenheim.
Modules: Private Equity, Mergers and Acquisitions
Natalie Packham
Assistant Professor of Quantitative Finance. Prof. Packham´s research focuses on quantitative risk management. She has several years of industry experience as an investment banking software engineer at Dresdner Kleinwort.
Modules: Risk Management, Risk Modelling
Günter Strobl
Professor of Finance. His research focuses on corporate finance, market microstructure and asset pricing, and has been published in leading journals. Before joining Frankfurt School, Prof. Strobl was Assistant Professor of Finance at Kenan Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina. He holds a PhD from Wharton School.
Module: Equity Capital Markets
Jörg R. Werner
Professor of Accounting and Head of Accounting Department. His research focuses on international comparison of accounting standards. Prof. Werner published a textbook on the introduction of IFRS.
Module: Financial Accounting
Adalbert Winkler
Professor of International and Development Finance. Before joining rankfurt School, he was Deputy Head of the EU Neighbouring Regions Division/DG International at the European Central Bank and chief economist of a consulting company engaged in development finance.
Modules: Financial Development, Microfinance