Harald Lohre

Head of Quant Equity Research at Robeco

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

About

Dr Harald Lohre is Head of Quant Equity Research and serves on the Quant Equity Management Team of Robeco. Previously, he was a member of the global management team at Invesco Quantitative Strategies, managing multi-asset activities and research. Prior to that, Harald was the Head of Quantitative Research and Portfolio Manager on the Quantitative Asset Allocation Team of Deka Investment GmbH. Before joining Deka, he had completed his Doctoral Studies in Finance summa cum laude at the University of Zurich while working as an Analyst in the Quantitative Strategies Team of Union Investment. Harald holds a Diploma in Mathematical Finance from the University of Konstanz and is a past Fellow of the Centre for Endowment Asset Management (CEAM), Cambridge Judge Business School. Harald is an Honorary Researcher at the Department of Accounting and Finance of Lancaster University Management School as well as a Research Fellow at the Hamburg Financial Research Center. He has supervised five PhD students to completion. His work has been widely published in academic and practitioner journals alike, including the Journal of Empirical Finance, the Financial Analysts Journal, Quantitative Finance, the Journal of Portfolio Management, the Journal of Fixed Income, or the Journal of Risk. Harald has been awarded several research grants, and he is the winner of The Sir Clive Granger Memorial Best Paper Prize and the Bernstein Fabozzi / Jacobs Levy Award. He serves on the research committee of Inquire Europe.

Experience

  • Robeco (Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands)
    • Head of Quant Equity Research
      Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

    • Executive Director of Research
      Mar 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

  • Lancaster University Management School (9 yrs 5 mos)
    • Honorary Researcher
      Oct 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 9 mos

      Guest lecturer in quantitative finance at Lancaster University, collaborating on joint research projects in the area of quantitative investments and financial econometrics, supervising doctoral and master students, presenting at international conferences, co-organizing academic conferences such as the 2021 conference on the Frontiers of Factor Investing, see http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/fofi2020/

    • Visiting Research Fellow
      Feb 2017 - Sep 2021 · 4 yrs 8 mos

      Collaborated on joint research projects in the area of quantitative investments and financial econometrics, supervised doctoral and master students, guest lectured in quantitative finance at Lancaster University Management School, presented at international conferences, co-organized academic conferences such as the 2018 conference on the Frontiers of Factor Investing, see http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/fofi2018/

  • Research Fellow at Hamburg Financial Research Center
    Jul 2021 - Present · 5 yrs

    The Hamburg Financial Research Center is an independent research institute to foster the exchange of knowledge between science, politics and business.

  • Member of the Research Committee at Inquire Europe
    Feb 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 5 mos

    Serving on the Research Committee that is responsible for selecting research projects for funding, thus have direct responsibility for soliciting, reviewing and approving these research projects.

  • The Journal of Systematic Investing (6 yrs 6 mos)
    • Associate Editor
      May 2022 - Apr 2026 · 4 yrs

      Serving as an Associate Editor on the journal’s editorial board, led by Amit Goyal (Lausanne). Duties include giving advice on the state-of-the-art research in systematic investing, providing input on strategic directions for the journal, and reviewing a portion of submitted manuscripts.

    • Editorial Board Member
      Nov 2019 - Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos