Christopher Geczy, Ph.D.

Christopher Geczy has been on the Finance Department faculty at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania since 1997. He is academic director of the Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research. He is also academic director of the Wharton Wealth Management Initiative at Wharton Executive Education. He has a BA in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in finance and econometrics from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago (now the Booth School).

Chris regularly teaches investment management and co-created the first full course on hedge funds at Wharton. He has created and taught multiple courses at Wharton, including the School’s first survey course in sustainable/ESG investing. Chris has been the academic director of a number of Wharton Executive Education programs, including the 2009 Securities Industry Institute in partnership with SIFMA, the Private Wealth Management program in partnership with the CFA Institute, and programs for the Investments and Wealth Institute (formerly IMCA). In addition, he has taught investment management in the Penn-Securities Association of China (Penn-SAC) program for a number of years. In a previous role, he taught AIMR/CFA Institute-accredited professional risk management courses.