Dirk Jenter is a Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics and was previously on the faculty of Stanford and MIT. He is a Research Associate of CEPR, a Research Member of ECGI, and a former Research Fellow of NBER.

His research focuses on corporate governance, the selection and compensation of top executives, mergers and acquisitions, and the interactions of firms with capital markets. His work has been published in all top finance journals, has received several research awards, and has been featured in, among others, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Economist. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Finance and has been an Associate Editor of the Review of Financial Studies.

He obtained an M.Phil. in Economics from the University of Cambridge and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Business Economics from Harvard University.