Professor of Finance

University of Oxford Saïd Business School

April 2024

Renée is a truly global scholar. Her work focuses on information flows on boards, bank governance, group decision-making, the governance of central banks and gender diversity on and off boards.

After receiving an MS in Mathematics from Stanford University and a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago, she held positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Stockholm School of Economics, the University of Queensland and the University of New South Wales and visiting positions in Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Sweden and the US. She is a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute and a Senior Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research.

Her global experience is reflected in the interdisciplinary nature of her research, which has been published in top accounting, economics, finance and management journals. 

Renée’s work on gender diversity in particular has received global media coverage. Her work has been featured in news outlets such as the Financial Times, the Economist, the Daily Telegraph, Boston Globe, Australian Associated Press, The Australian, Irish Herald, Scotland on Sunday, Board IQ, Press Trust of India, The New Zealand Herald, Berlingske Nyhedsmagasin, NK (Norway), Politiken (Denmark), DN (Norway) among others.

Professor of Finance, Chair of Mergers and Acquisitions

WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management

April 2020

Nihat Aktas holds the Chair of Mergers and Acquisitions at WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management since September 2013. He is also the Academic Director of the executive education program devoted to Mergers and Acquisitions at the same institution. He previously worked at Skema Business School (France), EMLYON Business School (France), and Louvain School of Management (Belgium). He was a visiting researcher at the Anderson School of Management (UCLA, Los Angeles) in 2001–2002, a Research Fellow at the CORE Institute (Universite catholique de Louvain) in 2006-2008, and an Academic Fellow of the Europlace Institute of Finance in 2007-2009. He has held prior visiting appointments at University of Lille 2 (France) and King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (Saudi Arabia).

Aktas has published more than 35 articles in leading refereed academic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Economic Journal, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Journal of Banking & Finance. Being interested in empirical corporate finance in general, his research is mainly focused on mergers and acquisitions. His research has been cited over 2,300 times according to Google Scholar. His papers have been featured on the programs of leading international conferences, such as the American Finance Association and European Finance Association. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Corporate Finance (since 2018) and the Revue Finance (since 2015).

He is also a regular speaker at various academic and industry events. His research has been reviewed and quoted in widely read international media, such as the Financial Times, The New York Times, Les Echos, and Sueddeutsche Zeitung.

Nihat Aktas

Chair of Mergers & Acquisitions, WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Burgplatz 2, Vallendar, 56179, Germany

http://www.whu.edu/mergers

SSRN page: https://ssrn.com/author=238428

Franklin Allen is Professor of Finance and Economics and Director of the Brevan Howard Centre at Imperial College London and has held these positions since July 2014.  In August 2019 he became the Associate Dean for Faculty and Research in the Business School there.  He was on the faculty of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from July 1980 – June 2016. He now has Emeritus status there. He was formerly Vice Dean and Director of Wharton Doctoral Programs, Co-Director of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center, Executive Editor of the Review of Financial Studies and Managing Editor of the Review of Finance.  He is a past President of the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, the Society for Financial Studies, the Financial Intermediation Research Society and the Financial Management Association, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the British Academy.  He received his doctorate from Oxford University.  Dr. Allen's main areas of interest are corporate finance, asset pricing, financial innovation, comparative financial systems, and financial crises.  He is a co-author with Richard Brealey and Stewart Myers of the eighth through thirteenth editions of the textbook Principles of Corporate Finance.

Allen N. Berger is the H. Montague Osteen, Jr., Professor in Banking and Finance in the Finance Department, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, since 2008. He is also Ph.D. coordinator of the Finance Department, and Carolina Distinguished Professor of the University. Outside the University, he is currently Vice President of the Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS), and will be its 2021 Conference Coordinator, and 2022 Program Chair and President. He is also Senior Fellow at the Wharton Financial Institutions Center and Fellow of the European Banking Center, and serves on the editorial boards of eight professional finance and economics journals. Professor Berger was editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking from 1994-2001, has co-edited seven special issues of various professional journals, and has co-organized a number of professional research conferences. He also co-edited all three editions of the Oxford Handbook of Banking, 2010, 2015, and 2019. His research covers a variety of topics related to financial institutions. He is co-author of Bank Liquidity Creation and Financial Crises (2016, Elsevier), as well as TARP and other Bank Bailouts and Bail-Ins around the World: Connecting Wall Street, Main Street, and the Financial System (2020, Elsevier).

He has published over 150 professional articles, including well over 100 in refereed journals. These include papers in top finance journals, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation and Journal of Corporate Finance; top economics journals, Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Journal of Monetary Economics; and other top professional business journals, Management Science, Journal of Business, and European Journal of Operational Research. His research has been cited over 79,000 times according to Google Scholar, including 27 different articles with over  1,000 citations. He has given invited keynote addresses on five continents, and has been a visiting scholar at several Federal Reserve Banks and central banks of other nations.

Professor Berger received the University of South Carolina Educational Foundation Award for Research in Professional Schools for 2018, and was named Professor of the Year for 2015-2016 by the Darla Moore School of Business Doctoral Students Association. He also has won a number of best paper awards from different journals and finance conferences. He was Secretary/Treasurer, Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS) from 2008-2016; and Senior Economist from 1989 to 2008 and Economist from 1982-1989 at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983, and a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University in 1976.

Gennaro Bernile, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Herbert School of Business, University of Miami, Florida.  Previously, Gennaro has worked on the Faculty of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University between 2013 and 2017, and as a Visiting Scholar at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission between 2008 and 2010. 

Gennaro has published several articles in leading refereed academic journals in finance and accounting, such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance, Financial Management, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Journal of Accounting and Economics.  He is an active participant at academic and industry conferences around the world and his work has been reviewed in numerous national and international media outlets.  

Gennaro is an incoming Associate Editor of the Review of Corporate Finance (starting January 2021) and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Corporate Finance (January 2018 – December 2020), and served as Guest Editor for a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Economic Psychology in 2019.

Gennaro Bernile     

Herbert Business School, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 33146 https://www.bus.miami.edu/thought-leadership/faculty/finance/bernile.html

SSRN page: http://ssrn.com/author=343926,

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lkBJH-YAAAAJ&hl=en

Sanjai Bhagat is Provost Professor of Finance at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has worked previously at Princeton University, and University of Chicago. He has an MBA from the University of Rochester and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Sanjai has published extensively in top finance and law journals. He has over 15,000 citations in Google Scholar. His paper, "Corporate Governance and Corporate Performance," was awarded the Paper of the Decade Award for being the most impactful paper in the Journal of Corporate Finance during 2008-2018. His work "The Promise and Perils of Corporate Governance Indices," published in Columbia Law Review was selected as one of the "Best Corporate and Securities Articles" by the Vanderbilt Law School. The European Corporate Governance Institute also awarded the article the De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek Law Prize for best paper.

He is author of the highly acclaimed book published by Cambridge University Press: Financial Crisis, Corporate Governance, and Bank Capital. 

During the past decade Sanjai has made invited public presentations to a variety of professional audiences - November 2018: Presentation to BlackRock executives on executive compensation, board governance, and say-on-pay, in New York, NY. October 2018: Presentation on board governance and executive compensation to 250+ pension fund managers and mutual fund managers at the Council of Institutional Investors annual meeting in New York, NY. October 2018: Presentation on Director Compensation and Executive Compensation to 200+ board-members and CEOs at the National Association of Corporate Directors annual summit, Washington DC. October 2018: Presentation on Bank Capital and Bank Governance to economists and attorneys at the U.S. Federal Reserve Board in Washington DC. July 2018: Presentation on Today's Capital Raising Challenges to 150+ board-members and CEOs at the National Association of Corporate Directors entrepreneurship forum, San Francisco CA. June 2018: Presentation on Technology and Finance (FinTech) to 150+ board-members and CEOs at the National Association of Corporate Directors conference, Austin TX. April 2017: Participant at the White House Initiative, "Core Principles for Regulating the United States Financial System" at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Washington DC.

Sanjai is connected to the start-up community in Colorado and is the founding director of TiE-Rockies (The Indus Entrepreneurs)-a professional group for technology entrepreneurs, and serves on corporate boards.

Sabri Boubaker is a Professor of Finance at EM Normandie Business School (Paris, France) and Research Fellow at the Institut de Recherche en Gestion (University of Paris Est). Sabri holds a Ph.D. in Finance from University of Paris Est (2006) and a HDR degree (Habilitation for Supervising Doctoral Research) in 2010 from the same university. He was visiting professor/ researcher at Cass Business School (London, UK), University of Birmingham (Birmingham, UK), Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada), IESEG School of Management (Lille, France), IAE Gustave Eiffel (Paris, France), Hanoi School of Business (Hanoi, Vietnam), University of Portsmouth (Portsmouth, UK), Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi, India), University of Brunel (London, UK), University of Tunis (Tunis, Tunisia), and the Vietnam National University (VNU-IS, Hanoi, Vietnam).

Sabri Boubaker has recently published many academic papers (+80 papers) in international refereed journals including Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Financial Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Financial Research, International Review of Financial Analysis, European Financial Management Journal, Review of Quantitative Accounting and Finance, and Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. Dr. Boubaker has also edited 11 books on corporate finance, corporate governance, board of directors and corporate social responsibility (Emerald Group Publishing, Springer Verlag, World Scientific Publishing, Palgrave Macmillan, Elsevier, Hermes International Publishing, Edward Elgar) and many special issues different academic journals.

He serves on editorial boards of many accounting and finance academic journals such as British Journal of Management, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money (Subject Editor), Emerging Markets Review (Subject Editor), Economic Modeling (Subject Editor), Finance Research Letters (Associate editor), and Business Ethics: A European Review (Associate Editor).

Sabri Boubaker was keynote speaker in many conferences and has been involved in the organization (founder, chair and member of the scientific committee) of more than 30 conferences during the recent years. He is the co-founder and co-chair of the annual Paris Financial Management Conference (2013–) (+500 submissions per year), of the Vietnam Symposium in Banking and Finance (VSBF) series (2016–) (+300 submissions per year), and the Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Advancement of Financial Economics. He is also the President of the International Society for the Advancement of Financial Economics (ISAFE).

Narjess Boubakri is the first Bank of Sharjah Endowed Chair in Banking and finance professor at the School of Business Administration of the American University of Sharjah. She is currently the Dean of the School of Business Administration.

She received her Ph.D. in Finance from Laval University (2000). Her main research interests are in the areas of privatization, corporate governance, empirical finance, international finance, economic reforms and political economy. Professor Boubakri has also published in the area of Corporate Social responsibility, Islamic Finance and Sovereign Wealth Funds. 

Professor Boubakri has authored numerous articles and book chapters. Her research has been published in some of the most prestigious peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of International Business Studies and Journal of Corporate Finance. She is currently the Finance Editor of the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Associate editor in Journal of Corporate Finance and Chief Editor in Finance Research Letters. She sits as subject editor  on the editorial boards of Emerging Markets Review, Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money, and Journal of International Business and Policy.

Dr. Thomas J. Chemmanur is currently a Professor of Finance and Hillenbrand Distinguished Fellow at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College, where he has taught for several years. Prior to joining Boston College, Prof. Chemmanur was Associate Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University for several years. He has also taught at the Sloan School of Management, MIT, the Stern School of Business, New York University, and the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from the Stern School of Business, New York University. 

Dr. Chemmanur’s research is in the area of theoretical and empirical corporate finance, theoretical and empirical entrepreneurial finance and innovation, contract theory, and topics in applied game theory. His recent research has focussed on various aspects of the initial public offerings (IPOs) and seasoned issues of equity (SEOs); trading by institutions around various corporate events such as IPOs, SEOs, and stock splits; venture capital and angel financing contracts and various aspects of venture capital; corporate restructuring and the sources of firm value created by spin-offs, carve-outs, and tracking stock; the choice of firms between stock and cash payments in mergers and acquisitions; theoretical and empirical topics in capital structure; theoretical and empirical topics in dividend policy; theoretical and empirical topics in corporate governance and the relation between corporate governance and innovation; and finally, the disclosure requirements of various stock exchanges and the effects of competition and alliances (or acquisitions) between stock exchanges on the listing standards of these exchanges and the cross-listing decisions of firms.. Dr. Chemmanur has published several theoretical and empirical articles in the above and other topics in top finance journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, as well as other well-ranked finance and economics journals such as the Journal of Financial Intermediation, the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Journal of Banking and Finance, and Financial Management.

Dr. Chemmanur has recently served as an Associate Editor of the Review of Financial Studies, Financial Management and other top finance journals. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor of several journals including the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, International Review of Finance, and the Journal of Economics and Business. He has also previously served as editor of special issues of the Journal of Financial Intermediation, the Journal of Economics and Business and most recently, the Journal of Corporate Finance. He has organized several top conferences on various topics in finance, including the conference on Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation around the World sponsored by the Review of Financial Studies in Beijing in June 2015 and the annual Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation Conference jointly sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation and co-sponsored by the Review of Financial Studies (in 2010, special issue), with Management Science (in 2016) and with the Review of Corporate Finance Studies (in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014). He has served on the program committees of many national and international finance conferences such as the Western Finance Association Meetings and the European Finance Association Meetings for several years (and currently). His research has been presented at many top international conferences, and supported by grants from several national and international bodies.

Dr. Na Dai is a tenured associate professor and Chair of the Finance department at the State University of New York (Albany).  Her research is primarily focused on corporate finance, financing for entrepreneurship and innovation, venture capital, private equity and hedge funds. Her scholarly works are published in both finance journals and entrepreneurship journals, such as Financial Management, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. She is the co-author of the book, "Hedge Fund Structure, Regulation and Performance around the World", recently published by the Oxford University Press. She has also contributed numerous scholarly book chapters published by Elsevier, Oxford, and Wiley, respectively. Dr. Na Dai has received various awards and recognitions for her excellence in research. She has won the Financial Management Association Best Paper Award in Financial Market and Institutions in 2006. One of her papers has been recognized as the Top Ten papers that contributed most significantly to the area of asset management published in Financial Management from 2009-2013.  She is also the co-recipient of the 2014 Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) Canada ITG Research Award. 

Professor of finance USI Lugano

Senior Chair and Managing Director, Swiss Finance Institute

May 2020

François Degeorge, Ph.D., is Professor of Finance at USI Lugano and Senior Chair and Managing Director of the Swiss Finance Institute. He is a former Dean of the Faculty of Economics at USI and a former president of the European Finance Association. He has taught at HEC Paris, where he also served as Associate Dean for Research. He has been a visiting professor at the Tuck School of Business, at Université Paris-Dauphine, and at the Saïd Business School. He holds a PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University.

François’s work has been published in leading journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Finance and the Review of Financial Studies. He is a regular contributor to European media outlets.

François Degeorge

Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)

Via Buffi 13

6900 Lugano, Switzerland

François Derrien is a Professor of Finance at HEC Paris. His research is in corporate finance, with a focus on how the environment of firms affects their financing and investment decisions, and ultimately, their performance and value. In that vein, he has studied the impact of security analysts on corporate policies, as well as the effect of the horizon of investors on firms’ decisions. More recently, his work has focused on understanding how local labor markets affect firms. In particular, he studies the impact of local demographics on the ability of firms to innovate and to grow. His work has appeared in top finance journals like the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics.

Hisham Farag is a Professor of Finance and Director of Sustainable Financial Innovation Research Centre- SFiC at the University of Birmingham Business School - UK, where he chairs the Department of Finance. His current research areas are FinTech, Sustainable Finance, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, and Board Diversity, in which he published widely. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Birmingham, UK. Hisham is a qualified Non-Executive Director and a member of the Investments sub-committee at the University of Birmingham. He has extensive industry experience as a financial consultant and a successful track record in attracting research funding from reputable institutions e.g. the Bank of England. Hisham is an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Finance, Research in International Business and Finance and Business Ethics: A European Review.

Donald J. Puligisi Professor of Finance

Lerner College of Business & Economics, University of Delaware

April 2020

Laura Casares Field is the Donald J. Puglisi Professor of Finance and Department Chair of Finance at the University of Delaware. Previously, she was a professor and Moore Faculty Fellow at Penn State University. Professor Field’s research focuses in the area of corporate finance, with a particular emphasis on corporate governance and initial public offerings. Professor Field’s research has been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Journal of Corporate Finance, among others.

Professor Field has taught corporate governance, corporate finance, and international finance to undergraduates, MBA, and Ph.D. students. Professor Field serves as an academic director of the Financial Management Association, has served as an associate editor for Financial Management, and has served as a program committee member for the Western Finance Association, Napa Conference, Financial Management Association Conference, and Drexel Corporate Finance Conference. Professor Field served as Corporate Track Chairperson for the FMA annual meeting, Corporate Governance Track Chair for the Midwest Finance Association annual meeting, and Corporate Finance Track Chair for the China International Conference in Finance. Professor Field serves as ad hoc referee for several journals, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Journal of Corporate Finance.

Professor Field earned her MBA and doctorate degrees in Finance from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Laura Casares Field

Lerner College of Business & Economics, 306B Purnell Hall, Newark, DE, 19702

MACON G. PATTON

DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF FINANCE

Kenan-Flagler Business

School, University of North

Carolina - Chapel Hill

Professor Paolo Fulghieri is the Macon G. Patton Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he was Chair of the Finance Area between July 2010 and December 2018. Paolo was previously Professor of Finance at INSEAD, in Fontainebleau, France, from 1995 to 2002, where he has been Dean of the PhD Program. Paolo also held positions as Visiting Professor at the Kellogg Graduate of Management of Northwestern University and the Booth Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. Between 1987 and 1993 was Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Business at Colombia Business School in New York.

Paolo research interests are in corporate finance, entrepreneurial finance and financial intermediation, with a special focus on venture capital and initial public offerings, IPOs. In the recent years Paolo’s research is focusing on the impact of Knightian Uncertainty (or “ambiguity”) in finance. 

As part of his research activity, Paolo has published extensively in leading finance journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance, among many others. He also is the winner of a best paper award in the Journal of Banking and Finance. Paolo was the Editor of the Review of Financial Studies (2006-2010), and Executive Editor of The Review of Corporate Finance Studies (2012-2018). He is also past president of the Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS) and a current member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).

Paolo received his PhD and MA in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Laurea in Economics from Universita' Commerciale L. Bocconi in Milan.

C. Russell Hill Professor, Darla Moore School of Business

University of South Carolina

April 2020

Dr. Omrane Guedhami is C. Russell Hill Professor and a Professor of International Finance at the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Guedhami earned his M.Sc. in finance from HEC Montreal in 1998 and received his Ph.D. in finance from Laval University in 2003.

Dr. Guedhami’s research interests are international, covering corporate governance, privatization, national culture, and corporate social responsibility. Specifically, his research examines the determinants of postprivatization performance changes, the impact of privatization on corporate governance and ownership structure, the determinants of ownership structure of newly privatized and public firms, and the role of large blockholders and tax enforcement in corporate governance. His research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) focuses on the determinants and economic consequences of firms’ CSR initiatives. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Finance, Journal of International Business Studies, Accounting, Organization, and Society, Journal of Business Ethics, among others.

He received several research distinctions and prestigious awards, including the 2003 Best Dissertation in International Finance Case Award sponsored by Indiana University Center for International Business Education and Research and Financial Management Association International, the Best Paper Award in International Finance at the 2007 Eastern Finance Association Meeting, the 2011 Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing (Center for Responsible Business, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley), the Best Paper Award at the 2011 China Goes Global Conference (Harvard Kennedy School), the Outstanding Paper Award at the 2012, 2013, and 2018 International Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, and the 2015 Emerald Citations of Excellence Award. In April 2011, he received the Rising Star Award from the Office of Research at the University of South Carolina. His research is funded extensively by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Dr. Guedhami taught at Laval University and Memorial University of Newfoundland before joining the Moore School of Business in 2007. He teaches financial management, investments, international corporate governance, and international finance at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels. He was voted Finance Professor of the Year in 2005 and MIB Professor of the Year in 2013. He is currently the coordinating director of the Ph.D. program in International Finance.

Dr. Guedhami is a member of the editorial boards of major journals, such as Contemporary Accounting Research and the Journal of International Business Studies, and is currently serving as a Section Editor at the Journal of Business Ethics, a Subject Editor at Emerging Markets Review, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial Stability, Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, and the Journal of International Accounting Research.

Omrane Guedhami

Sonoco International Business Department, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, 1014 Greene Street, Columbia, SC 29208 USA

Jens Hagendorff is Professor of Finance at The University of Edinburgh. He was previously Professor of Finance & Investment at Cardiff University, the AmBank Financial Services Professor at the University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur), and the Martin Currie Professor in Finance & Investment at The University of Edinburgh.

Jens has also worked at the Financial Stability Department of The Bank of Spain and as a lecturer at The University of Leeds. Jens held visiting positions in the U.S., Italy, and Spain, most recently as a visiting fellow at The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Bank of Spain in Madrid.

Jens' work has been published in leading academic journals such as Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Journal of Banking & Finance. He is one of the authors of Size, Risk and Governance in European Banking (Oxford University Press).

Jens is an expert on bank risk and systemic risk, corporate governance and the risk/return profile of companies. Jens also has an interest in the implications of natural catastrophes on financial markets. Some of his work has featured in The Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, BBC News, and other media.

He acts as an advisor/consultant to commercial and central banks as well as to asset management firms on a wide range of finance, investment, and banking issues. Recently, Jens has led a major review into the economic footprint of the European asset management industry for EY and PwC.

Jens has delivered training and executive education programmes around finance, banking, and investment management for major global banks and asset management firms.

He is a regular speaker at international conferences, corporate events, and industry forums. Recent talks include the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago and St Louis, the Swiss Asset Management Association, the Institute of Bankers in Malaysia, and the Beijing Municipal Government.

Jens Hagendorff

University of Edinburgh Business School

University of Edinburgh

29 Buccleuch Place

Edinburgh, EH8 9JS

www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/staff/jens-hagendorff

Evgeny Lyandres is Associate Professor of Finance and Dean’s Research Scholar at Boston University Questrom School of Business. His expertise lies in the areas of real options valuation, capital structure, M&As, IPOs, linkages between firms’ financial and operating strategies, capital market anomalies and regularities, and fintech. Professor Lyandres published numerous research papers in all top finance journals – Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, and Journal of Business, received multiple research awards, and presented his work over 160 times on 5 continents.

Chair in Financial Management

Sheffield University Management School, the University of Sheffield, UK

Sabur Mollah, Ph.D., Docent, holds a Chair in Finance at Sheffield University Management School, the University of Sheffield, UK. Previously, Sabur worked as a Professor of Accounting and Finance at Swansea University and as a Professor of Finance at the University of Hull before joining the University of Sheffield. Sabur previously held academic positions at Bournemouth University, Stockholm University, University of Botswana, University of Dhaka, and University of Leeds. Sabur held several administrative roles in the past, including Member of Senate, Head of School, Director of Research, among others.

Sabur has published extensively on issues surrounding corporate governance, banking, market condition and investor behaviour, and market reactions to dividend policy. Sabur’s recent research interest has been shifted towards the areas surrounding the Boardroom Dynamics in Implementing SDGs via Responsible Business Practices; Responsible Banking and UN Financial Initiative; Inclusion in the Workplace, Employee Welfare, Diversity and Equality, and Worker Representation in the Boardroom; Female Board Member and Gender Pay Gap; Role of Independent Director and Boardroom Dynamics; Executive Attributes and Change in Boardroom Dynamics; Child Labour, Low Paid Worker, and Outsourcing in Developing Countries; Outsourcing CO2 Emission to the Developing Countries; Responsible Business and Climate Finance; Boardroom Diversity and Green House Gas Disclosure etc.

Sabur has published many articles in leading refereed academic journals in finance, accounting, and economics, such as the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Stability, British Accounting Review, Journal of Financial Services Research, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting.

Sabur has published a few academic books, such as Global Stock Market Integration: Co-Movement, Crises, and Efficiency in Developed and Emerging Markets (Palgrave Macmillan Publishing Inc., USA); Islamic Finance: Ethical Underpinnings, Products, and Institutions (Palgrave Macmillan Publishing Inc., USA).

Sabur is a regular speaker at academic conferences around the world. Sabur is a member of Financial Management Association (FMA) International, British Academy of Management, and British Accounting and Finance Association. Sabur is serving the British Accounting and Finance Association as the secretary of the Corporate Governance SIG at and the British Academy of Management as a track chair for Sustainable and Responsible Business SIG.

Sabur Mollah

Sheffield University Management School, the University of Sheffield, Conduit Road, S10

1FL, Sheffield, UK

Dr. P. Raghavendra (Raghu) Rau is the Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance at the Cambridge Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge (2011 - present). He has taught at a number of universities around the world, including Université Paris Dauphine, University of Luxembourg, Sciences PO, Indian School of Business, Purdue University, University of California at Los Angeles, and most recently, the University of California at Berkeley. In addition, Raghu was Principal at Barclays Global Investors, then the largest asset manager in the world, in San Francisco from 2008-2009. He joined BGI just before the financial crisis began though he claims that this was a case of correlation, not causation. His arrival at Cambridge just before the Greek crisis and Brexit is also, he claims, purely coincidental.

Raghu received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. from INSEAD, his M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore, and his undergraduate degree from the University of Delhi. Raghu serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Review, Quarterly Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Stability, and the Review of Behavioral Finance. He is an advisory editor for the Quarterly Journal of Finance and Accounting and China Finance Review International. He is also a former editor of Financial Management and a past president of the European Finance Association.

His basic research interests can be summarized as trying to find out why people do weird stuff. He has documented for example, that firms that add a dotcom to their names (and later drop them) increase their market valuation, mutual funds advertise stale returns and earn fund inflows, CEOs take more risks when they were faced with disasters that had no personal consequences during their childhoods, and CEOs demand higher pay after terrorist attacks near their firms. His research, which has been published in journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science, among others, has frequently been covered by the popular press including the New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and the National Football League. It has not been unfortunately covered by the National Enquirer.

Raghu is co-founder and Research Director of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) and a member of the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network (CCGN). He won the Ig Nobel Prize in Management in 2015, a prize awarded for research that makes people laugh, and then think.

April 2020

Luc Renneboog is a Professor of Corporate Finance at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. 

His research interests span corporate finance, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, remuneration contracting, law and economics, payout policy, shareholder activism, ethical investing, corporate social responsibility, and the economics of art.

Luc has graduated with degrees in management engineering (BSc, MSc) and philosophy (BA) from the Catholic University of Leuven, with an MBA from the University of Chicago, and with a PhD in Financial Economics from the London Business School. 

Prior to joining Tilburg, he was on faculty at the Catholic University of Leuven and at Oxford University. He held visiting positions at Cambridge University, HEC Paris, Venice International University, Cunef (Madrid), European University Institute (Florence), and University Paris Dauphine. He currently also has a part-time affiliation at Ghent University. 

Luc has published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, American Economic Review, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, etc.  His work has been cited over 15,000 times (Google Scholar).  He serves on several editorial boards, including that of the Journal of Corporate Finance and the Journal of Banking and Finance.

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Since 1996, Jay R. Ritter has served as the Joseph Cordell Eminent Scholar in the Department of Finance at the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business. He has previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management. Jay is best known for his articles concerning equity issuance, especially initial public offerings, and is frequently referred to as “Mr. IPO.” His articles have won best paper awards at the Journal of Finance (1991), Journal of Financial Research (1996), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (2009 and 2013), Journal of Financial Economics (2010), European Financial Management (2012), and The Financial Review (2015). He has over 45,000 citations on Google Scholar.

Jay has served as a Director of the American Finance Association, and has served as President of the Financial Management Association for 2014-15. In addition to serving on the editorial board of the Review of Corporate Finance, Jay is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Critical Finance Review, European Financial Management, Journal of Behavioral Finance, and the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, and is an Advisory Editor of Financial Management. He has also been an associate editor of the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Research. Jay has also consulted on valuation and market manipulation cases, as well as securities issuance, and has been a mutual fund.trustee. He is frequently quoted in the financial press. Jay has taught short doctoral courses in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Hong Kong, Germany, and Switzerland, and been a keynote speaker at numerous conferences around the world. Jay received his BA, MA, and PhD (1981) degrees in economics and finance from the University of Chicago.

Janet Kiholm Smith is the Von Tobel Professor of Economics at Claremont McKenna College. She received a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, and has been on the faculties of Arizona State University, University of Southern California, and Oberlin College.  At CMC, she has served as the Founding Director of the Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship and has served as the Dean of the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, Chair of the Department of Economics, and Director of the Financial Economics Institute. Current research interests are in the areas of financial economics and organizations and markets. She is coauthor of Entrepreneurial Finance: Venture Capital, Deal Structure & Valuation, 2nd ed. (2019), Stanford University Press, which has been translated into several languages, including Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese. Her publications have appeared in such journals as The Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Legal Studies, Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, Journal of Banking and Finance.   

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Anjan Thakor holds the John E. Simon Professorship of Finance and is Director of the Olin Business School’s PhD program, and Director of the WFA Center for Finance and Accounting Research. Until July 2003, he was the Edward J. Frey Professorship of Banking and Finance and Chairman of the Finance Group (2000-03) at the University of Michigan Business School.  Prior to joining Michigan, he served as the NBD Professor of Finance and Chairman of the Finance Department at the School of Business at Indiana University.  Anjan has also served on the faculties of Northwestern University and UCLA as a visiting professor. He received his PhD in Finance from Northwestern University.

He is a research associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute and a Fellow of The Financial Theory Group. He has served as managing editor of Journal of Financial Intermediation from 1996-2005 and currently serves as an associate editor. He is past-President and a founder of the Financial Intermediation Research Society.

Anjan’s research interests focus on banking, information economics, and corporate finance. His current research focuses on financial stability, bank capital, innovation, culture and the economics of higher purpose.  He has published research articles in leading economics and Finance journals, like The American Economic Review, The Review of Economic Studies, The RAND Journal of Economics, The Economic Journal, International Economic Review, The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Economic Theory, The Journal of Financial Economics, The Journal of Financial Intermediation, and The Review of Financial Studies. In addition to his many published articles, monographs, and book chapters, Anjan has written numerous books, including: The Economics of Higher Purpose (Barrett-Koehler Publishers), The Purpose of Banking: Transforming Banking for Stability and Economic Growth (Oxford University Press; 2019), Contemporary Financial Intermediation (Elsevier, Fourth edition, 2019) Credit, Intermediation and the Macroeconomy: Models and Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2004), Designing Financial Systems in Transition Economies (MIT Press, 2002), The Value Sphere:  The Corporate Executive’s Handbook For Creating and Retaining Shareholder Wealth (World Scientific Press, 2009 ), Competing Values Leadership ( Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006),  and Handbook of Financial Intermediation and Banking (Elsevier, 2008).

In an article published in 2008, he was identified as the fourth most prolific researcher in the world in Finance over the past 50 years based on publications in the top seven Finance journals over that time. In another paper published in 2017, he was listed as one of the five-most prolific Finance authors during 2005–15. In addition to his publications, Anjan has been actively involved in advising PhD students who have gone on to enjoy distinguished academic careers. He has chaired dissertation committees of over 30 students who have received their PhDs, and two of his former students are now his colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis. He has won numerous teaching awards in the MBA, Executive MBA, and PhD programs.

Anjan designs and teaches courses in the PhD, MBA and Executive MBA programs and also conducts programs in the Olin School’s Executive Education Center.  The executive education courses he taught at Michigan include Growth Strategies, Corporate Financial Management, and Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures. At Olin, Anjan has taught a variety of executive education seminars in Olin’s Custom programs with specific companies, as well as its open enrollment programs. The Open Enrollment programs include Growth Engine, and Finance For Non-Finance Executives.

 Anjan is actively involved in corporate consultancy and expert witness work, including extensive work in corporate finance and banking.  He is a frequent speaker at corporate events and has helped various types of organizations, including numerous Fortune 500 firms, navigate the complexities of financing, capital investment, and performance evaluation for strategic decision-making.  Present and past clients include Citigroup, Commerce Bank, Reuters, CIGNA, Whirlpool, Dana, RR Donnelley, Anheuser-Busch, The Limited, Ryder Integrated Logistics, Zenith Industrial, Lincoln National, Waxman Industries, Landscape Structures, Allison Engine, Borg-Warner Automotive, Enterprise Car Rental, Spartech, Smurfit Stone, Nestle-Purina, Bunge, Brown Shoe, The Farm Credit System, and Essex Corporation.  He has worked extensively with boards of directors of various organizations. He also served as an expert witness in cases involving banking and finance issues, and has testified in federal courts on various occasions.

Gregory F. Udell is the Chase Chair of Banking and Finance at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University.  He is, or has been, a visiting economist, scholar and/or consultant to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of Italy, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago and San Francisco, the International Finance Corporation, the OECD, the Peoples Bank of China, the Riksbank and the World Bank.  Before joining the Kelley School of Business in 1998 he was Professor of Finance and Director of the William R. Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Stern School of Business at New York University.  Prior to his academic career Professor Udell was a commercial loan officer in Chicago.  Professor Udell has nearly 100 publications mostly focused on credit availability and financial intermediation - many appearing in leading accounting, economics and finance journals.  He is also the author of a textbook on asset based lending, Asset-Based Finance (2004), and is, or has been, an associate editor/editorial board member of a number of academic journals.

Chair, Finance Department, and Minnesota Banking Industry Chair Professor of Finance

Andrew Winton joined the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management in 1998; he was at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management from 1991-1998. He received an A.B. (Mathematics) from Princeton University in 1980, an M.B.A. (Finance) from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982, and a Ph.D. (Finance) from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. From 1982 to 1987, he worked in the asset/liability management department of CoreStates Financial Corp. 

Winton’s teaching and research focus on corporate finance and financial institutions. Current research topics include banks’ incentives for monitoring their borrowers and how industry and financial actors affect the incidence of corporate financial fraud. He has published in all three top finance journals. He served as President of the Financial Intermediation Research Society (2011-2012); as Associate Editor of the Journal of Finance (2000-2016), the Review of Financial Studies (1999-2002), the Journal of Financial Intermediation (2002-present), and the Journal of Money, Credit & Banking (2010-present); and as Department Chair from 2006-2010 and 2015 to date.