Professor of Finance
Founding Director of the Cambridge Centre for Finance, Technology and Regulation (CCFTR)
PhD (University of Pennsylvania)
My research interests include the intersection of finance, technology, and regulation, fintech, asset pricing, data, digital technologies, and the design of automated financial markets. I previously served as Chief Economist of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), where I used modern analytical tools and methods to design and enforce an effective regulatory regime of financial markets.
I’m a member of the Finance subject group at Cambridge Judge Business School, which focuses on the investment and financial decisions of institutions.

Professional experience
From 2010 to 2012, Professor Kirilenko served as Chief Economist of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), where he used modern analytical tools and methods to design and enforce an effective regulatory regime of financial markets. Before CFTC Andrei spent 12 years at the International Monetary Fund working on financial crises around the world.
News and insights
An executive education programme at Cambridge Judge Business School inspired by the National Bank of Ukraine has designed a strategy for rebuilding the country’s financial sector. As this blueprint is developed further, participants reflect on the programme and how it continues to influence decision makers.
The National Bank of Ukraine and Cambridge Judge Business School launch unique training programme to foster innovations in Ukraine’s financial sector.
Insight
Crypto selection
Study co-authored by Dr Andrei Kirilenko of Cambridge Judge Business School, presented at CERF in the City event, develops app-based recommendation framework for investor adoption of crypto assets. Consumers regularly choose books, music, travel destinations and other activities based on recommendations by many people on e-commerce or social media platforms. A study co-authored by Andrei Kirilenko, Reader in Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School, as well as Founding Director of the School's Centre for Finance, Technology & Regulation, develops an app-based modelling framework for investors’ selection of crypto assets such as stable coins and cryptocurrencies grounded on a similar type of recommendation system. The study was published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, and Andrei presented the findings on 18 January at the CERF in the City event organised by the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF) at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with CCLA. The annual event, held online this year, allows finance practitioners to interact with academic researchers. “Platforms or apps of such companies as Amazon or Tripadvisor serve as a kind of filtering system based on previous recommendations,” says Andrei, whose research focuses on the intersection of finance, technology and regulation. “The study basically…
Media coverage
BBC: Ukraine War | 24 February 2023
Cambridge professor believes mum is in mass grave
Andrei Kirilenko, Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School, is featured in this article concerning the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Cambridge Independent | 31 December 2022
Ukrainian professor at Cambridge Judge helps develop blueprint to rebuild war-torn homeland
Andrei Kirilenko, Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School and a native of Ukraine, has designed a strategy to rebuild the country’s financial sector.
Forbes Ukraine | 20 July 2022
Free program for the development of fintech with the support of Cambridge Judge Business school to start in Ukraine
The National Bank of Ukraine and Cambridge Judge Business School are launching a training program for the development of innovations in the financial sector of Ukraine.