Marco Becht is a Professor of Finance and Economics at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), a Resident Fellow at the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) at ULB and the Executive Director of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). He teaches at the ULB and, in 2003, at the Said Business School (University of Oxford). Marco Becht graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and holds a Ph.D. in economics from the European University Institute (EUI). Previously he worked at the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) in Madrid and at the European Commission's Directorate for Industry (DG III). Professor Becht is a member of the European Academic Council of Standard & Poor's, the scientific adviser of the corporate governance committee of APCIMS (Association of Private Client Investment Managers and Stockbrokers) and a board member of the Belgian Foundation of Directors. He has given expert briefings on corporate governance to the Group of Economic Analysis of the President of the European Commission, the senior management of Alcatel, the clients of Hermes Pension Management Ltd., the Euro 50 Group, the Italian Securities Regulator (CONSOB), the OECD, the World Bank and the German Corporate Governance Roundtable, among other.

Corporate and Public Governance