Fatima Zahra Filali Adib is an Assistant Professor of Finance at ESSEC Business School. Her research spans household finance and empirical corporate finance, examining how investors’ preferences, personal experiences, and constraints shape their financial decisions, and how these decisions influence firms and markets. Her work addresses household portfolio choices, stock market participation, responsible investing, and the role of institutional investors in corporate governance.

She holds a PhD in Management (Finance) from INSEAD and previously served as an Assistant Professor of Finance at Copenhagen Business School. She is a member of the CEPR Research Policy Network on Household Finance and the DNRF Center of Excellence for Big Data in Finance (BIGFI).