He is a professor at Columbia Business School and the managing editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance.
[2] He began his academic career at the Stanford Graduate School of Business before joining the faculty of Columbia Business School in 1999.
[3] He held the Leon G. Cooperman Professorship of Finance and Economics until 2019.
Bekaert's research focused on international finance and foreign exchange market efficiency.
[4] Bekaert is the co-recipient of a William Sharpe Award in 2012 from the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.