Per Strömberg

Per (Pelle) Strömberg is the Centennial Professor of Finance and Private Equity at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) and Visiting Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. During 2025, he was the BP Centennial Visiting Professor in Finance at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

His research is in the field of corporate finance and governance, much of it focusing on private equity, and on the effects of climate policy on firms, and has been cited more than 15,000 times in Google Scholar. His current research projects include the role of business angels in entrepreneurial finance, the responses of firms to taxation of greenhouse gas emissions, and the interdependence between private and public equity markets.

His work has been acknowledged by best paper prizes in the Journal of Finance (3 times), Journal of Financial Intermediation, Western Finance Association, and the European Corporate Governance Institute. In 2011 he was awarded the Assar Lindbeck Medal, given bi-annually to an economist active in Sweden below the age of 45.

He is a member and Second Vice President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). He also serves on the prize committee for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, which he chaired from 2016 to 2018. Outside of academia, he is currently a board member at AP4 and NASDAQ Clearing AB, and is a former board member of Conversus Capital LP, AP6, and Evisens Securities AB.

He holds a PhD and MSc from Carnegie Mellon University, and an undergraduate degree from SSE.