Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Günter Franke

Curriculum Vitae

May 4th, 1944

    Born in Wiedenbrück
spring 1963 - autumn 1964                                      Studies in Business Administration at the University of Hamburg
autumn 1964 - autumn 1967     Studies in Business Administration at the Saarland University , Saarbrücken, degree: Diplom-Kaufmann
autumn 1967 - end of 1970     Research assistant at the Institute for Econometrics and Operations Research, Department of Business Studies at the Saarland University
July 1970     Dr. rer. oec., Saarland University
January to June 1971     Visiting associate professor at the Finance Department of the Pennsylvania State University
August 1971 - August 1972     Research assistant at the Saarland University
August 1972 - September 1975     Assistant professor at the Saarland University
January 1975     Habilitation in Business Administration at the Saarland University
1975     Calls from Rutgers University and Fernuniversität Hagen
October 1975 - March 1983     Professor of Finance at the Justus Liebig University, Gießen
1977     Organiser of the annual meeting of the EUROPEAN FINANCE ASSOCIATION in Bad Homburg v.d.H.
1978     President of the EUROPEAN FINANCE ASSOCIATION
1978     Call from Universität Bielefeld
1979 - 1980     Visiting professor at EUROPEAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN MANAGEMENT, Brussels
Juni 1982     Call from Universität Trier
April 1983 - September 2014     Professor of International Finance at the University of Konstanz
March 1985, October 1987 and September 2001            Visiting professor at the Jiao Tong University in Shanghai
1989 - 1999     Finance coordinator at the EUROPEAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN MANAGEMENT, Brussels
November 1989     Call from Universität Göttingen
Mai 1993     Call from Universität Bonn
1995 - 2000     Promotor and heaf of reviewers of DFG-Schwerpunkt-programm "Effiziente Gestaltung von Finanzmärkten"
Februar 1997     Call from Universität Frankfurt am Main
1998 - 2010     Head of the "Center of Finance and Econometrics" at the University of Konstanz

1998-2014

   

Research professor at the "Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung", Mannheim

2001     President of the GERMAN FINANCE ASSOCIATION
since 2001     Member of the Advisory Board of the Center of Financial Studies, Frankfurt/Main
2002 - 2013     Codirector of the Thurgau Institute of Economics, Kreuzlingen (CH)
February 2003, February 2008     Visiting Scholar, New York University
2003 - 2010     Head of the research group "Price-, Liquidity- and Credit Risks: Measurement and Distribution"
2003 - 2011     Head of the Jury of the Postbank Finance Award
2003 - 2012     Head of the Ethics Committee at Universität Konstanz
2003 - 2013     Member of the Advisory Board, Center for Applied Statistics and Economics, Humboldt University, Berlin
since 2003     Member of the Board of the Foundation "Umwelt und Wohnen"
September 2004     Head of the Kerntagung "Marktwirtschaft und Risiko" des Vereins für Socialpolitik in Dresden
May 2006    

Honorary doctor degree from the University of Mannheim

since 2006     Fellow of Centre of Financial Studies, Frankfurt am Main
since 2011     Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Banking and Finance, University of Zurich
2013 - 2014     Deputy Chair of the Verein für Socialpolitik
since 2014     Research Professor at SAFE, University of
Frankfurt a.M.
since 2014     Co-Head of the Advisory Board of the Frankfurt Institute of Risk Management and Regulation
2016 - 2023     Head of coordination team of Studium Generale at University of Konstanz
Co-editor:    

Financial Markets and Portfolio Management (until 2012)

      Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (until 2011)
      Schmalenbach Business Review (until 2011)
      European Finance Review (until 2003)
      The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory (until 2010)
      The Review of Derivatives Research (until 2009)
      Schriften zur quantitativen Betriebswirtschaftslehre
Gabler Verlag, Edition Wissenschaft (until 2003)

Memberships:


since 2000

   

 


Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science

2016     Honorary Member of the German Finance Association