The annual private markets research conference is a forum to explore the latest research advances in private markets by combining academic and practitioner perspectives. For the eighth edition, the annual private markets research conference will take place 26-27 june 2025 in Lausanne. 

We are pleased to announce our first keynote speaker for this year: Gregory Brown, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Topics: Risk and performance measurement of private market funds; the economics of private impact investment funds; private fund manager incentives; institutional investor asset allocation; entrepreneurial finance; alternative private investing structures; private equity, private debt and private real asset investing; VC contracting; ESG, TBL, and impact exposures of private market funds; private market exits and alternative routes to liquidity; etc.

 

Registration   Registration for the conference is free but mandatory

Date

June 26-27, 2025

Conference venue

HEC Lausanne, Internef Building.

Scientific commitee 

• Pascal Böni, Tilburg University
• Gregory Brown, University of North Carolina
• Serge Darolles, Université Paris Dauphine - PSL
• Theodosios Dimopoulos, HEC Lausanne and Swiss Finance Institute
• François Degeorge, Swiss Finance Institute and Università della Svizzera italiana
• Rüdiger Fahlenbrach, EPFL and Swiss Finance Institute
• José-Miguel Gaspar, ESSEC Business School
• Tim Jenkinson, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
• Emmanuel Jurczenko, EDHEC Business School
• Marie Lambert, HEC Liège, Management School of the University of Liège
• Benoit Leleux, IMD
• Ludovic Phalippou, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
• David Robinson, Duke University, Fuqua School of Business and NBER
• Morten Sorensen, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College 
• Enrique Schroth, EDHEC Business School
• Per Strömberg, Stockholm School of Economics