Irina Zviadadze

Irina Zviadadze is an Associate Professor of Finance at HEC Paris

She received a Ph.D. in Finance in 2013 from the London Business School. Between 2013 and 2019, Irina served as an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics, where she taught a core course on derivatives pricing and financial markets to BSc students, topics in Asset Pricing for Doctorate students, and Investments and Financial Management to students in an Executive program. In 2019, Irina joined HEC Paris, and since then, she has taught financial economics in the HEC's flagship Grand Ecole program. In 2023, Irina started teaching a course on Risk and Return in the Executive Master in Finance program.

Irina's research interests lie in asset pricing. She studies a risk-return tradeoff in different asset markets (equity, fixed-income, and foreign-exchange markets) and across different horizons. Her papers appeared in the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis; and were also presented at numerous conferences and seminars worldwide. Irina has received several research awards, including Hans Dalborg's award for excellence in research in financial economics in 2019 and the Best Young Researcher Award in Finance and Economics in 2023 by Foundation SCOR, Europlace Institute of Finance, and Institut Louis Bachelier.