Jędrzej Białkowski
Senior Fellow 2025–2026

Jędrzej Białkowski is a professor of finance at the University of Canterbury (NZ). His research focuses on financial risk management, behavioural finance, and investments, including socially responsible investing. Since the early 2000s, he has especially been focusing on the relationship between politics and capital markets, which resulted in important contributions to the literature.

Jędrzej was a visiting scholar at McCombs School of Business, the University of Texas at Austin (US), and Saïd Business School, University of Oxford (UK). His international cooperation resulted in nearly forty publications in peer-reviewed journals. He has published in top-ranked journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics and the Journal of Banking and Finance as well as in top outlets in the area of derivatives, including the Journal of Derivatives and the Journal of Futures Markets. Jędrzej has received several prestigious awards, including the Boyle, Lally, and Rose Cup for best overall paper at the 2019, 2022 and 2025 New Zealand Finance Colloquium. Jędrzej’s research has been featured in the international press, among others in Les Echos (FR), Financial Times (DE), Reuters (DE), Economist (UK), The Huffington Post (US), Voice of America (US), and US Fed News (US).