Pedro Alberto Chauffaille Saffi

Dr. Saffi is currently a Lecturer at the Judge Business School (Cambridge, UK) and was an Assistant Professor of Finance at IESE between 2007 and 2011. He obtained his Ph.D in Finance from London Business School in 2007 and prior to that a 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 previous teaching experience includes courses for MBA, EMBA, MPhil and Executive Education students at the Cambridge Judge Business School, IESE Business School, London Business School, Reykjavik University (Iceland), Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil) and Nile University (Egypt). In 2012 he was awarded an Outstanding Teaching Award by the Judge Business School. His professional experience includes work as a valuation expert for the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague, and to real estate and pharmaceutical companies. He also worked in the asset management division of Banco Icatu (Brazil) and as an academic consultant to Mondrian Investment Partners. His research covers topics such as security lending markets; short selling; liquidity risk; and how differences of beliefs affect trading volume. He has presented his work in the world's top academic conferences and contributed with articles to the popular press. In 2011, his paper Price Efficiency and Short-Selling was published at the Review of Finance Studies. In 2012 he was awarded one of the Q Group s research awards and in 2013 an award by Inquire Europe.