Pierre Hillion

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Pierre Hillion is the de Picciotto Chair at INSEAD in Alternative Investments and Visiting Professor at UCLA and CalTech. He received his MBA from Ecole HEC, holds a DEA from the Université Paris-Dauphine and a PhD from the University of California. He teaches in various executive programs at INSEAD and Amsterdam Institute of Finance, and is Program Director of the Macquarie-INSEAD Master of Finance.

In addition, he is academic advisor at Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch and Union Bancaire Privée, in Geneva. At INSEAD, he has received the Best Teacher for Electives, Singapore campus on several occasions.

His research interests lie in the areas of empirical tests of asset pricing models, options pricing models and empirical corporate finance. He has published in many journals, including:

  • Journal of Political Economy
  • Journal of Financial Economics
  • Review of Financial Studies
  • Mathematical Finance
  • Journal of Econometrics 

He is an Associate Editor of:

  • Journal of Empirical Finance
  • Journal of Financial Markets