黑料社

Biography

Emanuele Colonnelli is the Joseph L. Gidwitz聽Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at 黑料社. He serves as board member and Co-Chair of the Finance Sector at the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), leads the Finance and Entrepreneurship Theme at the CEPR-FCDO's PEDL initiative, co-directs the Becker Friedman Institute (BFI) LATAM, and he's a Research Associate at NBER, CEPR, and BREAD. He is the founding Faculty Director of Undergraduate Studies in Entrepreneurship at The University of Chicago, the Founder and Director of the Chicago Booth Entrepreneurship Research Lab, and sits on the Faculty Advisory Board of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He is the recipient of a number of grants and awards, such as the 2023 Carlo Alberto Medal, a biennial prize given to the best Italian economist under 40, and the Poets & Quants 40 Under 40 Best MBA Professors.聽

Colonnelli鈥檚 research focuses on the intersection between finance, development, and political economy, with a special interest in high-growth entrepreneurship and the interaction between governments, firms, and investors. Specific interests include a range of topics such as venture capital and private equity, corporate governance, corruption, ESG and impact investing, public procurement, and corporate bankruptcy. He has research and work experience in several emerging economies, including Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Myanmar, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, and Vietnam and regularly conducts world-wide surveys and field experiments with entrepreneurs, firms, and investors. His research has been published in various top academic journals, such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Financial Economics.聽

Colonnelli joined Booth in 2018 as Assistant Professor of Finance, Liew Family Junior Faculty Fellow, and Fama Faculty Fellow, and from 2022 to 2024 he was Associate Professor of Finance and MV Advisors Faculty Fellow. He was also a Visiting Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he taught the MBA elective on Entrepreneurial Finance. At Booth, he developed and teaches the first MBA class focused on venture capital and private equity in emerging markets.

Colonnelli holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford University, an MSc in Economics from Bocconi University, a BSc in Economics from the University of Siena, and he spent an academic year visiting Pembroke College, Oxford University.

Academic Areas

• Finance
• Entrepreneurship