Javier Estrada

Area of Expertise: Portfolio management, wealth management, investments, law & economics

Web Site: http://web.iese.edu/jestrada

Books: "The FT Guide to Understanding Finance," "The Essential Financial Toolkit"

Topics Presented in Speeches: Portfolio management, wealth management, investment strategies

Email: jestrada@iese.edu

Biography:

Javier Estrada is a professor of finance at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, as well as partner and financial adviser at Sport Global Consulting Investments, a company that provides wealth management advice to professional athletes.

Estrada is the author of “Finance in a Nutshell” (FT Prentice Hall, 2005), originally written in English and subsequently translated into Spanish, Italian, and Chinese; a second edition of this book, entitled “The FT Guide to Understanding Finance,” was published in 2011 by FT Press and was translated into Korean. He is also the author of “The Essential Financial Toolkit – Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Finance But Were Afraid To Ask” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

Estrada has done extensive research in the areas of portfolio management, investment strategies and risk, with a special focus on downside risk. He has also done research on emerging markets and insider trading. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Portfolio Management, the Journal of Investing, the Journal of Asset Management, the Journal of Wealth Management, and the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, among other journals.

Estrada is the founding editor of the Emerging Markets Review, the leading journal on emerging markets, was editor of the journal between inception in 2000 and the end of 2006, and currently remains an associate editor. He is also in the advisory board of several other academic journals.

Estrada holds an M.S. in finance and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) and a B.A. in economics from the National University of La Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina).