Lucie Teplá: Connecting Academic Finance with Executive Decision-Making

Lucie Teplá brings an academic perspective to the leadership conversation through her work in finance education and research. She is a Senior Affiliate Professor of Finance at INSEAD and serves as Academic Director of the school’s Masters in Finance.

Her research interests include portfolio choice, risk management and credit risk, while her teaching covers corporate financial policy, derivatives and financial economics. Before joining INSEAD, she worked in financial services and consulting.

What makes Teplá’s profile relevant to business leaders is the connection between rigorous financial theory and practical decision-making. Executives increasingly operate in environments shaped by market volatility, financing costs and complex investment choices. Understanding risk is therefore not simply a technical function of finance teams; it is a leadership capability.

Through executive education, Teplá contributes to that wider understanding by helping professionals approach financial decisions with stronger analytical frameworks.

Her career demonstrates how academic expertise can influence corporate leadership beyond the university environment—by equipping decision-makers with the tools needed to evaluate risk, capital and long-term value.