Skip to main content
PhD Program

Top Finance Graduate Award 2025 at HEC Paris

HEC Paris is proud to host the 2025 Top Finance Graduate Award Conference on 6 May 2025. This award recognizes the most promising PhD candidates in financial economics worldwide, graduating in 2025. 

HEC Paris Top Finance Graduate Award 2025

HEC Paris is proud to host the 2025 Top Finance Graduate Award Conference on 6 May 2025. This award recognizes the most promising PhD candidates in financial economics worldwide, graduating in 2025. The scientific committee selects the candidates with the greatest promise to have a long-term impact on our understanding of finance, regardless of their field of study. This award has been hosted since 2023 at HEC Paris and is the successor to the AQR Top Finance Graduate Award, hosted between 2013 and 2022 at Copenhagen Business School.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SIX WINNERS OF 2025

In randomized order:

Daniel Graves: PhD candidate in Economics at Yale University
Susan Cherry: PhD candidate in Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business
Suproteem Sarkar: PhD candidate in Economics at Harvard University
Juan Atolin-Diaz: PhD candidate in Economics at the London Business School
James Paron: PhD candidate in Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Leonardo d'Amico: PhD candidate in Economics at Harvard University

https://www.hec.edu/en/faculty-research/events/top-finance-graduate-award-2025-hec-paris