Christopher Polk is Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He also serves as Research Fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and is on the Norges Bank Investment Management Allocation Advisory Board. His research interests include asset pricing, corporate finance and hedge fund macroeconomics.

Christopher was previously a Visiting Professor of Finance at MIT and a consultant to the Bank of England. Christopher received a BS from Duke University and a PhD from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.