Antonio Mello

Biography

Dr.Antonio Mello is the Frank Graner Professor in Finance. His research interests are in corporate finance (risk management, capital structure, and security design), capital markets (arbitrage, manipulation, and crashes), and international trade and finance. Previosuly, Antonio Mello has taught at MIT-Sloan, Imperial College, London, the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, London Business School and INSEAD. He was visiting scholar at the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Banco de España. Mello has held director positions at RiverRock Investors, a commodity trading hedge fund, at investment banks Jefferies and Millennium-BCP, at Finpro, a private equity firm, and was the lead economist at the Central Bank of Portugal. Mello holds a BSc in civil engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon, an MBA and an MA in economics from Columbia University, and a PhD in finance from the London Business School, University of London.

Research Interest

corporate finance (risk management, capital structure, and security design), capital markets (arbitrage, manipulation, and crashes), and international trade and finance.