Stefanie Kleimeier earned a doctorate at the University of Georgia (USA) and is currently Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at the Open Universiteit (The Netherlands), Associate Professor of Finance at the Maastricht University (The Netherlands) and Associate Professor Extraordinary at the University of Stellenbosch Business School (South Africa).

Her research focusses on project finance, syndicated loans, retail banking, financial market linkages and integration and has been published in academic journals including the Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Financial Stability, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Applied Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Management and the Journal of International Money and Finance.

She received grants from the German Academic Exchange Service, Dutch Science Foundation and the European Credit Research Institute, consulted with the EU and the Center for European Policy Studies and taught graduate courses in 11 countries in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Stefanie Kleimeier is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Financial Economic Policy and of the editorial board of the International Review of Financial Analysis, Finance Research Letters and Journal of Financial Research.