Lars Norup Nielsen

Mr. Lars N.
Nielsen is a Principal at AQR Capital Management LLC.
He is a member of the Executive Committee at AQR Capital Management.
In his role, he is a portfolio manager and a senior member of Business Development, focusing on the firm’s partnerships with clients around the globe.
Throughout his tenure at AQR, he has held a number of leadership roles across the firm, most recently as the Co-Head of Portfolio Management, Research, Risk and Trading.
Prior to that, he was the Chief Risk Officer at the firm, where he was responsible for AQR’s global risk function.
Previously, he oversaw research for AQR’s Global Stock Selection and Global Asset Allocation teams, and was part of the portfolio management teams for a number of AQR’s multistrategy hedge funds and long-only equity portfolios.
Lars is a member of the Advisory Board of the NYU Stern Volatility and Risk Institute.
Prior to joining AQR, Mr. Nielsen was a Quantitative Equity Analyst at Danske Invest.
He earned a B.Sc.
and an M.Sc.
in economics from the University of Copenhagen.