Pedro Saffi

Professor of Financial Economics

Director - Master of Finance

Judge Business School

University of Cambridge

BIOGRAPHY

Prof. Pedro Saffi is a Professor of Finance at CUNEF in Madrid, Spain. He was a Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Cambridge between 2011 and 2025 and the Director of its Master of Finance program. He obtained his PhD in Finance from London Business School in 2007 and was an Assistant Professor of Finance at IESE in Spain between 2007 and 2011. Before that, an MSc. in Economics from Fundação Getulio Vargas (2002) and a BA in Economics from IBMEC Business School (1999), both in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

His research focuses on topics such as security lending markets; short selling; and limits to arbitrage. He regularly presents his work in the top academic conferences and contributes articles to the popular press. He has published his work in top Finance journals worldwide, including the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, and the JFQA. In 2012, he received a Q Group research award. In 2013 and 2018, he was honored with an award by Inquire Europe. In 2015, he won the NAC & Blackrock Global Challenge for Innovation in Corporate Governance prize and one of the 2015 Crowell prizes, presented by PanAgora Asset Management.

His previous teaching experience includes courses for MBA, EMBA, MPhil, and Executive Education students at CUNEF, Judge Business School, London School of Economics, IESE Business School, London Business School, Reykjavik University (Iceland), Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil), SKKU (South Korea), Nile University (Egypt), and Myra Business School (India). In 2012 and 2015 he was awarded an Outstanding Teaching Award by the Judge Business School.

His professional experience includes working as a consultant to Mondrian Investment Partners, as a corporate valuation expert for the United Nations' Permanent Court of Arbitration, consulting companies, and for real estate and pharmaceutical companies.