Dietmar Leisen is Professor of Banking at the University of Mainz, Germany.  Prior to this he was an Assistant Professor of Finance in the Faculty of Management at McGill University in Montreal, Canada during 2000-2004 and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution during 1998-2000. He received a PhD in economics from the University of Bonn, Germany in 1998.

Dietmar has been teaching “Private Equity” courses since 2002, and he is currently supervising three doctoral theses in the area. Beyond “Private Equity” his research interests are in pricing and using derivatives, and portfolio approaches beyond normal distribution assumptions.  His publications have appeared in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Applied Mathematical Finance and the European Finance Review. He served as a consultant at Societe Generale on derivatives pricing and gave presentations at numerous academic and practitioner conferences, including RISK and Goldman Sachs.