Meet our academic staff from the Lancaster University Management School (LUMS).
Dr. Benjamin Hammer is Interim Academic Dean and Associate Professor of Finance at Lancaster University Leipzig, where he has held various leadership positions since 2020. He is also affiliated to the Department of Accounting and Finance and the Centre for Family Business at Lancaster University Management School.
Prior to joining Lancaster University, Benjamin was the Executive Director of the Center for Corporate Transactions & Private Equity (CCTPE) at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, a leading think tank for private equity research in Europe. He has held visiting or affiliate positions at Florida Atlantic University, Concordia University and Utrecht University.
Benjamin’s research focuses on private equity and leveraged buyouts and has been published in top-tier journals such as the Journal of Corporate Finance and the British Journal of Management. He is the editor-in-chief of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity and a member of the editorial board of Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance.
His research has been recognized with the Larry Lang Corporate Finance Best Paper Award at the 2015 European Financial Management Association (EFMA) Annual Meeting, the 2018 Bundesverband für Alternative Investments (BAI) Science Award for excellent dissertations in the field of alternative investments, and the 2023 BAI Science Award for the best research paper in the field of alternative investments.
Benjamin holds a Habilitation in Business Administration and a PhD in Finance (with highest honors) from HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management. He attended the Management Development Program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education and studied at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and Tulane University as a scholar of the German Academic Merit Foundation and member of Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society.
Career highlight: United Nations PRME Co-coordinator of SIP Working Group
Assistant Professor in Business Studies, Strategy & Entrepreneurship, Accounting & Finance, Research Methods
Research focus: Trust in business relationships, negotiation
Career highlight: Selling my start-up to a private investor
Career highlight: Magazine article on customer journeys in Harvard Business Review
Prof Blome holds a Honorary Professorship after being Academic Dean / Rektor of Lancaster University Leipzig from 2022 until 2025. He is also Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Operations & Production Management. Prof Blome’s research interests include supply chain management, procurement and operations management with strong focus on sustainability, innovation and risk issues. In 2020 and 2021, he received the highly cited research award from Clarivate in the category “cross field”, highlighting the top 0,1% cited scholars. Prof Blome is regular keynote speaker at academic and practitioner conferences. His research won several prestigious awards. He is also co-owner and board member of two companies (n-side, Belgium, and Procurence, Poland). Overall, Prof Blome raised more than 5 million Euro research funding with a strong focus on industry funding.
In earlier years, Prof Blome was Associate Dean of Research, Head of the Management Group and Professor of Operations Management at the University of Sussex Business School where he was also responsible for the REF position. Before Prof Blome was the GlaxoSmithKline Chaired Professor in Strategic Sourcing and Procurement at UCLouvain, Belgium and affiliated with the Center of Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE). Today he still works part-time as Kronos Group Endowed Chair at UCLouvain/CORE.
Before that, he was a supply chain consultant in Switzerland, assistant professor at EBS Business School, Germany, visiting scholar at IIM Bangalore, India. During his career he lectured and pursued research at institutions in the US, Canada, India, China, France, Belgium, Thailand etc.
