Piet Sercu (born 1951) obtained the degrees of Business Engineer (1973), Master of Business Administration (1975), and Doctor in Applied Economics (1981) at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
He initially taught at the Flemish Business School in Brussels (1980-1986) , and then returned to K.U.Leuven where he currently teaches International Finance courses in the undergraduate, Masters', and postgraduate executive courses and at Lovanium International Management. In 1993-96 he was PhD Director, in 1997-2000 MBA Director, and in 2000-02 Vice Chairman of the business studies department; he now heads the Graduate School of Businesss Studies. Meanwhile he also had Visiting Professor appointments at New York University, Cornell University, the University of British Columbia, the London Business School, and Université Libre de Bruxelles; he taught shorter finance courses in Helsinki, Bandung (Indonesia), St Petersburg, and India, and regular doctoral courses in the European Doctoral Education Network.
Piet Sercu was also part of the Finance faculty of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management. He was the 1994 Vice-President and 1995 President of the European Finance Association, won the 1995 Sanwa Prize for a Monograph in International Finance (with Raman Uppal, then UBC/MIT), was awarded the 1996 Francqui Chair of Economics at FUNDP, Namur, and the 1999 Western Finance Assoction Award in Corporate Finance (together with his co-authors Wu and Chen, CityU HK). In 2001/2 he is Fellow at the Swedish School of Economics (Hanken) in Helsinki. Piet Sercu is a member of the Editorial Board of the European Financial Review, of the European Financial management and the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. Between 1984 and 1991 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Finance Association. With Raman Uppal he wrote a textbook, International Financial Markets and The Firm, South-Western Publishing Cy (Cincinatti)/Chapman and Hall (London), and a monograph "Exchange Rate Volatility, Trade, and Capital Flows under Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes" (Cambridge UP, Cambidge MA, 2000).