Pedro Santa-Clara is a Full Professor of Finance at the Nova SBE since 2007 – currently on leave. He was Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Finance at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management between 1996 and 2009. He has an undergraduate degree in Economics from Nova SBE and a Ph.D. in Finance from INSEAD. Having published more than 30 papers in top academic journals of Finance and Economics, he was a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research. 

In 2012, Pedro’s career took a radical turn, and, over the subsequent six years, he led the construction of the new campus in Carcavelos for Nova SBE. In this context, Pedro led the creation of Fundação Alfredo de Sousa, which he presided between 2015 and 2018. In early 2019, Pedro started the company Shaken Not Stirred, promoting and managing education projects: 42 Lisboa and 42 Porto; Miles in the Sky; TUMO. 

Pedro is a founder and member of the Board of Trustees of Instituto Mais Liberdade and also a founding partner of Atrium Portofolio Managers and of Data4Deals.