Martin Schmalz

Martin Schmalz is Chief Economist and Director of the Office of Economic and Risk Analysis at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), the regulator of audit firms, on secondment from his position as Professor of Finance and Economics at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. Professor Schmalz’s experience spans corporate governance, asset management, corporate finance, asset pricing, accounting, auditing, and competition.

At Oxford, Schmalz served as Head of the Finance, Accounting, Management, and Economics Area, as Academic Director of the Blockchain Strategy Programme, and co-director of the Open Banking & AI in Finance Programme. Outside Oxford, he serves asa Director of Global Corporate Governance Colloquia and as a consultant to UHNWI, family offices, and competition authorities.

Schmalz is known as an author of “The Business of Big Data: How to Create LastingValue in the Age of AI”, and was featured as one of the “40 under 40” best business school professors worldwide at the age of 33. He was invited to present to regulators and policy makers across the globe, including the US Department of Justice, The WhiteHouse Council of Economic Advisers, European Commission, European Parliament,OECD, various central banks, and at universities across America, Europe, Asia, andAustralia.

His prize-winning research has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies, and was covered, among others, by The New York Times, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Forbes, Fortune, Handelsblatt, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He holds a graduate degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in mechanical engineering from the Universität Stuttgart (Germany) and a M.A. and PhD in Economics from Princeton University (USA).