Prof. Mark Freeman

Prof. Mark Freeman is the Dean and Professor of Finance at The York Management School, University of York. He has previously held professorial positions at the Universities of Loughborough and Bradford, and non-professorial full-time academic appointments at the Universities of Exeter and Warwick. He has also held visiting positions at Northwestern University, the University of California, Irvine, the University of Technology, Sydney and the University of Leeds. Mark has held a variety of academic leadership roles during his career across research, teaching and engagement. At Loughborough, he was the Academic Leader for the University Research Challenge of “Secure and Resilient Societies”, and also acted as its Director of Executive Education. At Bradford, he was the Director of the Accounting, Finance & Economics Division, and was responsible for the design, launch and running of its M.Sc. in Finance. Mark’s research interests focus on very long-term, often intergenerational, problems in cost-benefit analysis and portfolio management. He teaches across a wide range of finance topics, mainly at the postgraduate and executive levels, including corporate finance, derivatives, investment management, asset pricing, and international finance. He has won awards for both his teaching and research. Before becoming an academic, Mark worked as an equity research analyst specializing in the brewing and distilling industries for stockbrokers Savory Milln and James Capel in London. He has also worked on a major project appraisal for the bottling division of United Distillers in Scotland. He holds a first class degree in Mathematics from Nottingham University and a PhD in Finance from Warwick Business School.