Karin S. Thorburn is Research Chair Professor of Finance at NHH Norwegian School of Economics and Adjunct Full Professor of Finance at The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania, USA. Before joining NHH in 2009, she was a full-time faculty member at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, USA.

Thorburn’s research focuses on M&A, credit, bankruptcy, IPOs, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility. She publishes regularly in leading academic journals, including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

Thorburn is a Director of the Financial Management Association International, a Research Associate of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, a Research Affiliate of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) in Brussels, and formerly a Council member of the Society for Financial Studies and Director of the Executive Committee of the European Finance Association.

She is a Director of the Board of Argentum Asset Management AS, Maritime & Merchant Bank ASA, Nussir ASA, Preferred Global Health AS, Green LNG Services AS, and Horus AS, and previously served on the boards of SEB Investment Management AB and Nordea Bank Norway ASA. She has served on several government-appointed committees on topics related to the investment strategy of the $1.5 trillion Government Pension Fund Global and banking regulation and regularly participates in legal proceedings as an expert witness or expert judge.

Thorburn holds a PhD in financial economics from Stockholm School of Economics.