Andreas Hackethal

Professor of Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt

Andreas is a full Professor for Personal Finance at Goethe University in Frankfurt and he heads the Pension Finance Lab at Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE. He joined Goethe’s Faculty of Economics and Business Administration in 2008 and served as its Dean from 2011 to 2015 and as its Dean of Studies from 2015 to 2020. His empirical research is on individual financial behavior, financial advice and pension finance. His work was published in the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies and the Review of Finance. He chairs the advisory council to the German Financial Supervisory Authority BAFIN and is a member of the Exchange Experts Commission (advising the German Federal Ministry of Finance). Since 2020 he is co-directing the Center for Financial Studies at Goethe University. He co-founded Frankfurt’s startup hub Techquartier.com and served as supervisory board member of three tech companies.