Corporate Foreign Exchange Risk Management

About the Authors

Håkan Jankensgård obtained his MSc in Finance from Lund University, Sweden, in 2001, after which he took up a position as risk manager at Norsk Hydro ASA, at the time a Norwegian industrial conglomerate. This task involved developing the company's corporate risk management programme and building a risk model to support management's strategic decision-making. Beginning in 2004 he worked as an independent consultant in risk management, specializing in developing decision-support tools that quantify firms' risk‐return profile as a function of corporate policies.

Simultaneously with his career as a consultant, Dr Jankensgård pursued a PhD at Lund University, which was completed in 2011. His doctoral thesis is entitled Essays on Corporate Risk Management and consists of seven studies on various aspects of risk management in firms. The thesis was awarded the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Stipend, which made it possible to focus exclusively on research for three years. During this time, Dr Jankensgård deepened his research into firms' risk management strategies but also broadened it to cover various other topics in finance, such as the financing of corporate investment, the effects of information asymmetries, the role of corporate ownership, and volatility in financial markets.

In 2016 Dr Jankensgård became Associate Professor in Corporate Finance at the Department of Business Administration, Lund University. He continues to publish in prestigious academic journals, ...