Javier Suarez is Professor of Finance at CEMFI, Madrid, and a research member of the CEPR, the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and the Financial Markets Group of the London School of Economics (LSE). He earned a PhD in Economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 1994. After a postdoctoral stay in Harvard University, he became a lecturer at the London School of Economics. He joined CEMFI in 1996, where he became a tenured Associate Professor in 2001 and a Full Professor in 2004. His research and teaching activities cover mainly the areas of corporate finance and banking, with a especial focus on applications of contract theory and the analysis of bank regulation, venture capital, and the linkages between macroeconomics and finance. He has published in top economics and finance journals, including Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Finance, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, and Review of Financial Studies. He is an associate editor of the Review of Finance since 2004. In 2006 he won the Fundacion Banco Herrero Prize for Spanish researchers younger than 40 years old in the fields of economics, business, and social research.