Martijn Cremers

K.J. Martijn Cremers serves as the Martin J. Gillen Dean and the Bernard J. Hank Professor of Finance at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. Cremers served as interim dean starting in 2018 before accepting the position in 2019; he was recently reappointed to serve a second term that will run through 2029.

Prior to joining Notre Dame in 2012, Cremers was a faculty member at the Yale School of Management from 2002 to 2012. His research and teaching areas are investment management, corporate finance, corporate governance, corporate law, business ethics, and Catholic social thought.

Cremers’ research currently has over 13,000 Google citations. His best-cited paper, “How Active is Your Fund Manager? A New Measure That Predicts Performance,” published in 2009 in the Review of Financial Studies, introduced Active Share, an innovative tool for determining the extent of active mutual fund management by measuring the percentage of stock holdings in a manager's portfolio that differs from the benchmark index. Active Share has become widely used in the financial industry and was incorporated in Morningstar Direct and FactSet.

His recent awards and distinctions include receiving an honorary degree in 2019 from Holy Cross College at Notre Dame, where he served as the 2019 commencement speaker.

Cremers has long-standing consulting relationships with various investment managers, including Touchstone Investments. He serves as an independent director at Ariel Investments, an investment company located in Chicago, since 2018.

A native of the Netherlands, Cremers earned his master’s degree from the Free University Amsterdam and his Ph.D. from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Cremers and his wife Liesbeth reside in South Bend, Indiana, and have six children.