Gregor Andrade is a Principal and senior leader in Business Development at AQR Capital Management. In this role, he oversees institutional business development and client services throughout North America.
During his 22-year career at AQR, Andrade has played a role originating or managing relationships with some of the world’s leading institutional investors, including pension plans, endowments and foundations, and sovereign wealth funds, particularly in the Middle East, Asia Pacific and North America. He has also lectured at leading business schools, such as Booth, Wharton, Yale, HBS and LBS (London).
Prior to joining AQR, Andrade was an assistant professor of finance at Harvard Business School, where he taught multiple sections in the first year finance curriculum, as well as an advanced case-based class in corporate finance in the second year finance curriculum. His academic research and interests focused on corporate finance, and he won (with Steve Kaplan) the 1998 Smith Breeden Prize for best paper in the Journal of Finance.
Andrade has a PhD in Finance from Booth, where his dissertation and research focused on M&A and related topics. In addition, prior to graduate school he worked in M&A investment banking at Wasserstein Perella. He has an undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.