Speakers

    Brandon Yueyang Han is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. His research focuses on asset pricing, information and learning, and financial market frictions, with particular emphasis on heterogeneous beliefs. He...
    Olivia S. Mitchell is the IFEBP Professor of Insurance/Risk Management & Business Economics/Policy, and Director of the Pension Research Council and Boettner Center, at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a NBER Research Associate and...
    Prof. Devin Shanthikumar is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs at the University of California Irvine and Professor in Accounting. Prior to joining UC Irvine, she was a Professor at the Harvard Business School. She has won numerous teaching awards,...
    Ron Kaniel is the Jay S. and Jeanne P. Benet Professor of Finance at the Simon Business School, University of Rochester. Kaniel is a former Co-Editor, and current Advisory editor, of the Journal of Financial Economics, and is one of...
    Professor Beatty has held the Deloitte and Touche Chair of Accounting since 2006 when she was named the first female endowed chair in the history of the (Fisher) College of Business. She was appointed as the first female full professor...
    Since 1992, Hercules Haralambides is Professor of Maritime Economics and Logistics (MEL), having taught at 9 universities (and in 7 different countries), most prominent of which being Erasmus University Rotterdam (his principal appointment for 26 years), National University of Singapore,...
    Theodore Sougiannis is the KPMG Distinguished Professor of Accountancy and interim head of the Department of Accountancy. Sougiannis joined the Gies College of Business faculty in 1990 and has held numerous leadership roles within the College. He served as the...
    Dimitris Papanikolaou is a professor in Finance at Kellogg School of Management.
    Wayne Landsman’s research focuses on the role of accounting information in capital price formation. Topics of research include pensions, employee stock options, asset securitisation and fair value accounting. He teaches courses in financial accounting and financial reporting. Dr. Landsman served...