Petko S. Kalev received his PhD in Financial Econometrics from Monash University in 2002. Petko is Professor of Finance in La Trobe University Business School since 29 March 2017. For the period of 15 of February 2010 until 28 of March 2017, Dr Kalev worked as a Professor in Finance and Director of the Centre for applied Financial Studies (CAFS) at the School of Commerce with the University of South Australia Business School. Prior to Petko was appointed as a Senior Lecture (Lecture) at the Department of Accounting and Finance in Monash University (January 1999 -February 2010).

Professor Kalev has several research interests ranging from Asset Pricing, Market Microstructure, Corporate Finance, Quantitative Finance and Behavioural & Experimental Finance. He is most known and recognised for his empirical research contributions in Market Microstructure: asymmetric information and informed trading, market quality, price discovery and volatility modelling.