Peter M. DeMarzo

Peter DeMarzo is the Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business (Interim). He is also the John G. McDonald Professor of Finance, and founder and co-director of the LEAD Stanford Online Business Program. DeMarzo is an economist specializing in corporate investment and financing, asset securitization, financial contracting, and market regulation. 

His recent research includes bank capital regulation, sovereign and corporate debt dynamics, the optimal design of securities and compensation mechanisms, peer effects in asset pricing, financial market regulation, and corporate disclosure and investment policies. He is co-author of Corporate Finance and Fundamentals of Corporate Finance and has served as president of the Western Finance Association and the American Finance Association. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Finance Association, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. 

Before joining Stanford, DeMarzo was on the faculty of UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and a national fellow at the Hoover Institution. He received a PhD in economics and an MS in operations research from Stanford University, and a BA in cognitive science and in applied mathematics from UC San Diego. His research has received best paper awards from the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Western Finance Association, and the Utah Winter Finance Conference. He has won best teaching awards at both Stanford GSB and the Haas School of Business. He currently teaches MBA and PhD courses in Corporate Finance and Financial Modeling.