Rate My Professor Naciye Sekerci

Naciye Sekerci is an Associate Professor of Finance with tenure in the Department of Accounting, Finance and Insurance at KU Leuven's Faculty of Economics and Business, affiliated with the Finance Research Group on the Antwerp campus. She holds a PhD in Corporate Finance from Lund University and previously taught at Utrecht University from 2015 to 2021 and at Lund University. Sekerci joined KU Leuven as an Assistant Professor of Finance in September 2021. She is also a Research Fellow at the Knut Wicksell Centre for Financial Studies at Lund University. Her research focuses on corporate finance, corporate governance, sustainable and ESG investing, family firms, enterprise risk management, and investor behavior. Key publications include "Foreign ownership and board cultural diversity" (2025, Journal of Corporate Finance), "Cultural Bonds" (2024, awarded Best Paper at the World Finance Conference 2024), "Common ownership and firm dividend policies" (2021, Finance Research Letters), "Investors' Reactions to CSR News in Family Versus Nonfamily Firms: A Study on Signal (In)credibility" (2021, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice), "Firm Ownership and Enterprise Risk Management Implementation: Evidence from the Nordic Region" (2020, Journal of Risk and Financial Management), "Large investors' portfolio composition and firms value" (2020, Journal of Corporate Finance), and "Factors Associated with Strategic Corporate Decisions in Family Firms: Evidence from Sweden" (2020, International Review of Finance). She supervises PhD theses, including on behavioral insights into individuals' investment decisions and non-cognitive determinants of preferences for sustainable and crypto assets.

Sekerci serves as a member of the Council of the Faculty of Economics and Business and the Campus Council. She organizes the Sustainability and Finance Conference series (2022, 2023, 2025), co-organizes the AFI finance seminar series at KU Leuven, sits on the program committee of the European Sustainable Finance PhD Workshop series, and is a board director of the Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI), where she will host their PhD workshop in November 2025. She teaches master-level courses such as Strategic Financial Decision Making (since 2021/22) and Corporate Risk Management and Option Techniques (since 2024/25), earning the Best Teacher Recognition in 2022 at KU Leuven. Her contributions influence discussions on managerial responses to environmental investor demands and cultural bonds in finance.