David
Teeters

David Teeters is Senior Lecturer in the Financial Management Department. He is currently a candidate for a Ph.D. in Economic History at London School of Economics, holds an MBA from IESE Business School, University of Navarra, a M.Sc. in Economics from London School of Economics, and a B.S./B.A. in Neuroscience, History, Political Science and Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh.

Senior Lecturer Teeters has over two decades of experience in public and private international financial markets.  He has worked as an equity analyst in New York, and as a managing director at bulge bracket investment banks in London and Singapore built and managed capital markets businesses.  He has worked extensively with sovereign wealth funds and central bank reserve managers around the world, and has strong client relationships with the global hedge fund community.  For the past five years until joining IESE he was a principal in private equity firms, closing transactions, managing portfolio companies from the board of directors, and exiting investments across industries.

His areas of academic interest include corporate finance, with a focus on company valuation, restructuring, and governance of small and medium enterprises and the evolution of corporate financing decisions vis-à-vis private equity and private credit markets.  In capital markets, his current teaching interests and research in financial market history includes macrofinance (and the emergence of Bretton Woods III), the effects of financialization (from the perspective of both sovereign and household balance sheets), safe asset determination and shortage (specifically the role of collateral in credit creation in the Eurodollar market), green finance, and decentralized finance.