KEVIN KAISER

Kevin Kaiser joined the finance faculty at INSEAD in 1992 where he is currently Affiliate Professor of Finance and Director of the International Executive Program. Kevin teaches extensively in the executive and MBA programs at INSEAD and has received the MBA award for Best Teacher for Electives seven times. He also teaches at numerous institutes and for private clients throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia; and was Adjunct Professor of Finance at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (1995-96, 2005 and 2006). Kevin has been on the faculty at the Amsterdam Institute of Finance since 1992. His research and teaching interests are in corporate finance and value creation in corporate restructuring and value-based management.

In the classroom, Kevin combines his deep knowledge of academic theory together with the first-hand practical knowledge he has gained through real-world experience. Kevin was a part of the Corporate Finance and Strategy practice of McKinsey & Co., based in Amsterdam and Paris from 1997-1999, where he led and participated in a wide variety of studies involving companies across Europe, the USA, Asia and Africa addressing value creation, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and corporate strategy. Kevin was also a principal in bfinance.com, a venture capital-financed web-based marketplace for business finance which continues to manage multi-billions of Euros in transactions annually between thousands of corporations and hundreds of participating financial institutions.

Kevin holds a BA(Honors) in Economics from The University of Western Ontario and a PhD in Finance from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.