Pascal Gantenbein, MRICS, is the Henri-B.-Meier professor of Financial Management at the University of Basel. He also serves as the Dean of Studies at University of Basel’s Faculty of Business and Economics. His academic interests are in the areas of corporate finance and valuation, portfolio management and risk management, as well as real estate finance and venture capital. He was a founding member of the Swiss Start-up Monitor and is the editor-in-chief of the academic journal “Die Unternehmung – Swiss Journal of Business Research and Practice”.

Before joining faculty in Basel, he was an assistant professor at the Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance at University of St. Gallen. Furthermore, he was a visiting professor at HEC Paris, the University of Geneva (HEC Genève), the University of the Witwatersrand’s Wits Business School in Johannesburg, South Africa, and HEC Montréal, Canada, and he had visiting positions at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore (IIMB), India, and the Maastricht UniversitySchool of Business and Economics.

In addition, Pascal Gantenbein gained valuable work experience in the insurance industry and as a financial advisor. Today, he also acts as a board member in the financial sector. Pascal Gantenbein is a professional member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). He graduated in 1995 and received his Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of St. Gallen. In 2004, he received his postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation), also from the University of St. Gallen.

Gantenbein, Pascal: Unternehmerisches Finanzmanagement - Meilensteine der Entwicklung, in: Die Unternehmung, Vol. 70, Nr. 4, 2016, 387

Gantenbein, Pascal / Trautwein, Kristof: Industrializing Swiss Private Banks: A Strategic Road Map. Swiss Finance Institute White Paper, September 2016.

Spremann, Klaus / Gantenbein, Pascal: Finanzmärkte -- Grundlagen, Instrumente, Zusammenhänge. 4. Auflage, utb, 2016.

Spremann, Klaus / Gantenbein, Pascal: Finanztiefe und Wirtschaftswachstum. Zeitschrift für das gesamte Kreditwesen, 69. Jahrgang, Nr. 24, 2016, 1204-1209.

Szumilo, Nikodem / Gantenbein, Pascal / Gleißner, Werner / Wiegelmann, Thomas: Predicting Uncertainty: The Impact of Risk Measurement on Value of Real Estate Portfolios, in: Journal of Property Research, 33:1, 1-17, 2016, DOI:10.1080/09599916.2016.1146790.

Gantenbein, Pascal: Traffic Infrastructure in Switzerland: Are we ready for the Future? in: RICS‐Impulse, Spring 2016

Gantenbein, Pascal / Huwiler, Sibylle: Unternehmensimmobilien: Werttreiber oder Wertvernichter?, in: Swiss Real Estate Journal, No. 10, Juni 2015, 26-32.

Gantenbein, Pascal / Volonté, Christophe: Corporate Governance zwischen Regulierung und Selbstverpflichtung. Twice, Magazin der Handelskammer beider Basel, 2. Ausgabe, Frühjahr 2015, 4-7.

Gantenbein, Pascal / Herold, Nils: Venture Capital Investments for Life Sciences Start-ups in Switzerland. CHIMIA, Vol. 68, Nr. 12, 2014, 836-839.

Gantenbein, Pascal / Zaby, Simon: Credit Cycles and Real Estate Cycles, in: Gantenbein, Pascal / Westerfeld, Simone / Wullschleger, Beatrix: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Credit Analysis and Risk Management. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, 64-72.

Gantenbein, Pascal / Westerfeld, Simone / Wullschleger, Beatrix: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Credit Analysis and Risk Management. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Gantenbein, Pascal / Spremann, Klaus: Zinsen, Anleihen, Kredite. 5. Auflage, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2014.

Gantenbein, Pascal / Bader, Simon / Kolp, Daniel: Regulierung von Eigenmitteln im Bereich der Immobilien-Kreditvergabe durch Banken: Kontroverse Diskussion mikro- und makroprudenzieller Eingriffe. Der Schweizer Treuhänder, 5/2014, 393-397.

Gantenbein, Pascal / Rehrauer, Andreas: Volatility as an Asset Class -- A Valuable Portfolio Diversifier in Volatile Times?, in: GSTF International Journal on Business Review (GBR), Vol. 2, No. 4, July 2013, 224-230.

Gantenbein, Pascal / Glatz, Stephan/ Zimmermann, Heinz: Equity Markets and the Performance of Hedge Funds: How stable is Persistence?, in: GSTF International Journal on Business Review (GBR), Vol. 2, No. 4, July 2013, 231-237.

Gantenbein, Pascal: Marktversagen beim Venture Capital, in: Basler Zeitung, Dienstag, 2. Juli 2013, Nr. 159.

Gantenbein, Pascal: Besser auf Immobilien gebaut? Bedeutung und Grenzen von Immobilienanlagen für Stiftungsportfolios, in: Georg von Schnurbein und Philipp Egger (Hrsg.): Innovation statt Stagnation – Wie sich Stiftungen aus der Krise befreien. Foundation Governance, Band 10. Basel, Helbling Lichterhahn Verlag, 2013, 149-160.

Gantenbein, Pascal / Forrer, Reto / Herold, Nils: Venture Capital (Chapter 29, pp. 654-673), in: H. Kent Baker and Greg Filbeck (editors): Portfolio Theory and Management, Oxford University Press, New York, 2013.

Meier, Henri B. / Marthinsen, John / Gantenbein, Pascal: Swiss Finance: Capital Markets, Banking, and the Swiss Value Chain. Kolb Series in Finance, Wiley, Hoboken NJ, November 2012.

Gantenbein, Pascal / Herold, Nils / Zaby, Simon: Die KTI-Start-up-Förderung für innovative Schweizer Jungunternehmen ― Ein empirischer Vergleich gelabelter und nichtgelabelter Unternehmen, WWZ-Studie für CTI Start-up, 2011.

Gantenbein, Pascal / Pedergnana, Maurice / Engelhardt, Jens: Venture capital investments in life sciences, in: Swiss Biotech Report 2011, S. 24-25.

Gantenbein, Pascal / Engelhardt, Jens / Herold, Nils: Venture Capital in der Schweiz ― Eine Analyse der Kapitalflüsse und der Beschäftigungswirkung, in: Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship (ZfKE), 1. Heft, 59. Jahrgang, 2011, S. 1-20. 

Gantenbein, Pascal / Pedergnana, Maurice: Venture Capital in der Schweiz: Wie gefährdet sind Innovationen in der Schweiz durch die Finanzkrise?, in: Die Volkswirtschaft, November 2009.