Liudmila Alekseeva
Updated: August 2023
ACADEMIC POSITION
Assistant Professor MSI Department, Faculty of Economics and Business, KU Leuven (since July 2023)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Management, Financial Management Department, IESE Business School (2017 – May 2023)M.Sc. Finance, Bocconi University (2013 – 2015)B.Sc. Financial Management, St. Petersburg State University, Russia (2007 – 2011) RESEARCH INTERESTS
Entrepreneurial Finance | Empirical Corporate Finance | Human Capital | Technological Transformation
PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS
“The Demand for AI Skills in the Labor Market” (Published in “Labour Economics”) with José Azar, Mireia Giné, Sampsa Samila, and Bledi Taska
“AI Adoption and Firm Performance: Management versus IT" with Mireia Giné, Sampsa Samila, and Bledi Taska
“From In-person to Online: The New Shape of the VC Industry” with Silvia Dalla Fontana, Caroline Genc, Hedieh Rashidi Ranjbar
“Matching and Gender Gap in VC Investing”
BOOK CHAPTERS
"Common Ownership in Fintech Markets" with José Azar and Anna Tzanaki
WORK IN PROGRESS
“Local Human Capital and Innovation Spillovers” with Miguel Antón
SELECTED WORKSHOPS
Masterclass in Machine Learning for Textual and Unstructured Data, IESE Business School and the Fundación Ramón Areces (June 2023)
Finance PhD Students Workshop, HEC Paris (October, 2022)
NBER Summer Institute Meeting – Entrepreneurship (July 2022)
10th SKEMA KTO Paper Development Workshop (June 2022)
WEFI Fellows – PhD Workshop in Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation (led by Michael Ewens, Columbia University, 2021 – 2022)
NBER Doctoral Student Workshop on Economics of Artificial Intelligence (September 2021)
PRESENTATIONS
2023: 5th Future of Financial Information Conference at HEC, EFA 2023 (discussant)
2022: 10th SKEMA KTO Paper Development Workshop (SKEMA, Nice), WEFI PhD Seminar (online), WEFI Fellows Meeting (online), IESE Business School Seminar, Remote Work Conference (Stanford University)
2021: Munich Summer Institute (online); EARIE 2021 (online), Brown Bag Seminar (IESE Business School), Workshop on Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation – Fellowship Program (online)
2020: Digital Economics Conference (Toulouse School of Economics); The Impact of AI on White Collar Work, Orebro University (online, presenter and discussant); AI Conference, IESE Business School (online)
2019: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (online), IESE Business School Seminar
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Journal Reviewer: Management Science, Labour Economics, Industrial and Corporate Change (2021 - 2023)
Conference Reviewer: DRUID
Co-organizer: Student-led workshops in Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation, Part of WEFI seminar series (2021 - 2022)
Assisting Student: EFA Conference at IESE Business School (August 2022)
Assistant co-organizer: Women in Business Conference (IESE Business School, 2019)
SCHOLARSHIPS AND REWARDS
AFA Travel Grant (2020), FutFinInfo Conference Travel Grant (2023)
First Prize in XI UAM-Accenture Chair 2019 Award (2019)
Bocconi Merit Award, Full Tuition Waver extension granted to students on the top of the class (2014-2015)
Bocconi Merit Award, Full Tuition Waver (2013-2014)
Winner in Change the World Challenge in Entrepreneurship (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2014)
St Petersburg State University's Academic Excellence Scholarship, Full Tuition Waver (2007-2011)
St Petersburg State University's Academic Exchange Abroad Grant (2009)
Rosneft Academic Excellence Scholarship (2009)
ACADEMIC EXCHANGE
Lally School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA), Fall Semester of 2014/2015, Entrepreneurial Finance and Angel Investments focus
WU Vienna (Austria), Fall Semester of 2009/2010, Financial Management focus
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Bank Uralsib, Senior Associate, Strategy Department (Moscow, Russia, 2015-2017)
PwC Russia, Senior Audit Consultant (Moscow, Russia, 2011-2015)
OTHER INFORMATION
Languages: English, Spanish, Russian (native), French (in progress)