On Thursday 27 September 2018 Dean Philip Hans Franses surprised Mary Pieterse-Bloem with a bouquet of flowers in response to her appointment as Endowed Professor of Financial Markets at Erasmus School of Economics.
Mary Pieterse-Bloem combines her position at Erasmus School of Economics with her senior position as Global Head Fixed Income in the Global Investment Center of the Private Bank of ABN AMRO. This enables her to perform research with a very close eye on practice. Important ‘fresh from the field’ research topics are for instance the study of bond market liquidity and the return impact of firms’ alignment with the UN sustainable development goals. Since her appointment at Erasmus School of Economics in September 2011 she is responsible for the fixed income research and education programme including daily supervision of two PhD candidates, authoring academic publications, the Master’s course on fixed income securities and bond portfolio management and supervising of students with their thesis.