Andrei Kirilenko is a Professor of Finance at the Cambridge Judge Business School and the Founding Director of the Cambridge Centre for Finance, Technology and Regulation. Prior to joining Cambridge, he was a faculty member at Imperial and MIT. Before MIT, Kirilenko served as chief economist of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) where he used modern analytical tools and methods to design and enforce an effective regulatory regime of financial markets post-global financial crisis. For this work Kirilenko was awarded the CFTC Chairman's Award for Excellence (highest honor). Professor Kirilenko's scholarly work has appeared in top peer-reviewed journals and received multiple best paper awards. Kirilenko received his PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania with a specialization in Finance from the Wharton School.