Adrian Buss

Prof. Dr. Adrian Buss is an Associate Professor of Finance at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. He is the Academic Director of the full-time and part-time MBA as well as the Executive MBA. Before joining the school in 2021, he was an Associate Professor of Finance at INSEAD where he spent the first 10 years of his academic career.
His research investigates the impact of financial and institutional frictions (such as trading frictions, investment mandates, heterogeneous beliefs, etc.) on investors' portfolio decisions, equilibrium asset prices, and informational efficiency. Adrian’s research has been published in top Finance and Economics journals, such as the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Monetary Economics. Adrian is currently serving as an Associate Editor of the Review of Finance.
Adrian primarily teaches “Corporate Finance” topics in the school’s (E)MBA programmes as well as in the Master in Management. In addition, he teaches “Empirical Asset Pricing” in the PhD programme. Adrian also has ample teaching experience in Executive Education - in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. At INSEAD, he was the Programme Director of the school’s “Finance for Executive” programme. He has also taught in various other open-enrollment programmes (incl. “M&As and Corporate Strategy”, “Management Acceleration Programme”, …) and in customer-specific programmes with many global clients.
At Frankfurt School, Adrian has been involved in many student-led consulting projects, with large global companies such as BMW, Clariant, Commerzbank, Continental, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Börse, Infineon, KION, Lufthansa, Porsche Consulting, and Siemens but also with small and medium-size enterprises or NGOs.
Adrian graduated from the University of Mannheim with a Master of Science in Mathematics as well as in Business Information Systems and holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Goethe University Frankfurt.