Department of Finance Prize Winners 2020

August 2020

The Department of Finance would like to congratulate all our graduating students on the MSc Finance (full-time), MSc Finance (part-time), MSc Finance and Economics and MSc Finance & Private Equity programmes who received their degrees this year.

We would particularly like to highlight the winners of the Antoine Faure-Grimaud Prizes, awarded annually for the best overall performance in each postgraduate degree programme. All of our winners can be very proud of their efforts.

Antoine Faure-Grimaud Prize for Outstanding Performance in MSc Finance (Full-time)

1^st Prize Giorgio Gola

2^nd Prize Ying Zhang

Antoine Faure-Grimaud Prize for Outstanding Performance in MSc Finance (Part-time)

1^st Prize Yassine Rabahi

2^nd Prize Greg Sowerby

Antoine Faure-Grimaud Prize for Outstanding Performance in MSc Finance and Economics

1^st Prize Robert Montgomery B. Rogers

2^nd Prize Cheuk Hei Yip

Antoine Faure-Grimaud Prize for Outstanding Performance in MSc Finance and Economics (Research)

1st Prize Yunus Topbas

Antoine Faure-Grimaud Prize for Overall Student Performance in the MSc Finance and Private Equity

1^st Prize Omar Vega Kurson

2^nd Prize Marie Jolly

Antoine Faure-Grimaud Prize for Overall Student Performance in the MSc Risk and Finance

1st Prize Robert Moss

2nd Prize Philippe Caeyers

The Antoine Faure-Grimaud Prizes are awarded in memory of Professor Antoine Faure-Grimaud (1968-2009), whose career at the LSE spanned 13 years and whose reputation as a researcher in corporate finance and regulatory economics placed him at the very top of the profession internationally. He played a key role in building the Department of Finance and was a cornerstone of the department's PhD programme and the Financial Markets Group's Corporate Finance and Governance programme, which he directed.