Klaus Schafer
Dr., Prof., Chair of Finance and Banking, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Receiving his master in mathematics and a doctorate in business adminstration under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Bernd Rudolph at the Frankfurt Goethe-University he worked from 1993 to 2000 as an assistant professor of finance at the Munich School of Management at Ludwig-Maximilian-University. There he did his habilitation, the German post-doctoral degree, having worked on delegation and portfolio management in 2000. From 2000 to 2006 he held positions at the Universitiy of Cologne, the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, and the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg. Since 2006 he is a full professor of finance and banking at the University of Bayreuth where he also joins the boards of the Research Center in Bank Policy and Bank Regulation and the Bayreuth Research Institute for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises BF/M. He is a member of several national and international scientific associations. His main reseach interests are derivatives, risk management and capital market theory.
