Elena Loutskina

Elena Loutskina, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, teaches in the Finance area. Her research focuses on the role of venture capitalists and corporate venture capitalists in value creation for entrepreneurial firms. She also works in the are of securitization where she evaluates the impact of the securitization markets on the financial management of financial and non-financial corporations. She received Best Paper Awards at a major finance conferences and was invited to present her research at the Federal Reserve, International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and Banque de France. Her research was cited in the Financial Times and received a number of grants including one from Kauffman Foundation in the area of Entrepreneurial Studies and one from Banque de France in the area of Securitization.

Prior to joining Darden Elena taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Carroll School of Management, Boston College where she received Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award. Before starting her academic career, she worked at Cambridge Associates LLC and the National Bank of Belarus.