After teaching for five years at Oxford University's Said Business School and Merton College, where he held the Bankers Trust Fellowship, Ljungqvist joined New York University Stern School of Business in 2000, received tenure in 2005, became a full professor in 2007, and was appointed to the Ira Rennert Chair in Finance and Entrepreneurship in 2009.
[10] Ljungqvist currently serves on the board of directors of the Sixth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP6), which as of 2021 manages SEK 68.6 billion of assets invested in private equity and venture capital funds and unlisted companies on behalf of the Swedish public pension system.
[11] He has previously served as a securities market regulator via the Nasdaq Listing Council (2011-2017), on the World Economic Forum's Council of Experts overseeing the "Alternative Investments 2020" project (2012-2015), on a World Economic Forum working group tasked with "Rethinking financial innovation" (2011-2012), on the UK Department for Business Panel of Experts overseeing the 2014 review of the UK equity markets on behalf of the then Secretary of State for Business, the Rt.
He has consulted for the European Central Bank, the World Bank, Catalano Gallardo & Petropoulos LLP, British Gas, Transco, British Telecom, United Utilities, Stagecoach, Severn Trent, Tradepoint plc, Australian Gas, Telstra, among others.
[14] Other honors and awards include the following: Professor Ljungqvist has written more than forty articles, monographs, and working papers.