Lauder Leadership and Governance

Jules H. van Binsbergen

Anthony L. Davis Director of The Lauder Institute
Lauder Chair Professor and Nippon Life Professor of Finance

Jules H. van Binsbergen is the Lauder Chair Professor and Anthony L. Davis Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute for Management and International Studies. He is the Nippon Life Professor in Finance at the Wharton School, where he has taught since 2014. Professor van Binsbergen is a global expert in corporate finance whose pathbreaking theoretical and empirical research focuses on issues related to investments, institutional investors, and asset pricing. A research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, Professor van Binsbergen co-hosts the award-winning podcast All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions. He previously taught at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He received a PhD in Finance from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and an MA in Financial Econometrics from Tilburg University, following undergraduate studies in jazz piano at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague.

Julia Gray

Lauder Co-Director
Professor of Political Science

As the Lauder Co-Director, Julia Gray serves as the liaison between the Lauder Institute and the School of Arts & Sciences on matters related to SAS coursework and faculty. Julia Gray is an Associate Professor of Political Science, with a secondary appointment in Wharton’s Business Ethics and Legal Studies department. She specializes in international organizations and international political economy. Her research centers on international economic relations and economic organizations in emerging markets. Her book, The Company States Keep: International Economic Organizations and Investor Perceptions in Emerging Markets, received the 2013 Lepgold Book Prize for the best book published in international relations. She received her PhD in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles, an MSc with distinction in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics, and a BA summa cum laude from Amherst College.

LAUDER ADVISORY COUNCIL

Co-chaired by two long serving members of the Lauder Institute Board of Governors, the Lauder Advisory Council (LAC) supplements the work of the Board with the insight of members of the Lauder alumni community. It is comprised exclusively of Lauder alumni who have transformed their unique business education into successful international careers.