Per Strömberg is the Director of the Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) since July 1, 2008. He is also a Professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Dr Strömberg's  research has primarily focused on the two areas of bankruptcy and private equity finance. His work has been published in Journal of Finance, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, etc. His research was awarded with the 2001 Brattle Prize for best corporate finance paper published in the Journal of Finance and the 2007 Stuart Greenbaum Award for the best paper published in the Journal of Financial Intermediation.

He still teaches corporate finance in the University of Chicago GSB international executive MBA programmes, where he won best teacher awards in the European executive MBA programme in 2004 and 2005, and was chosen as “Professor of the Year” by the Asia executive MBA class in 2006. He is a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a research affiliate of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and a research associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). He received his PhD in Financial Economics from Carnegie Mellon University and MBA (civilekonom) from the Stockholm School of Economics.