Speakers

    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...
    Robert Parker Chair Professor of Finance in McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and Associate Editor.
    Professor Sugata Roychowdhury’s research focuses on the influence of managers’ incentives on their reporting and disclosure choices, as well as operational and investment decisions. His most recent research focuses on the interaction between voluntary and mandatory disclosures, the implications of...
    Denis Sosyura is the James and Elizabeth Robertson Professor of Finance at Arizona State University.
    Professor Boone is the Ajay Menon Professor of Business in the College of Business at Colorado State University. She is a research member at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and an affiliated researcher at the HKU Jockey Club Enterprise...
    Stephen Penman is the George O. May Professor in the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University where he is also co-director of the Center for Excellence in Accounting and Security Analysis and director of the Masters Program in Accounting and...
    Iftekhar Hasan holds the title of university professor at Fordham University, where he also serves as the E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in Finance, academic director of the Ph.D. program, and co-director of the Center for Research in Contemporary Finance at the Gabelli...
    Rustam Zufarov earned a PhD in Accounting from Rice University in 2020. Rustam’s research interests include voluntary disclosure, corporate financing, and healthcare accounting.
    Mengxin Zhao, PhD, CFA, joins the Costello College of Business as an associate professor of finance. Prior to this appointment, she served as a senior financial economist at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and was an associate professor of finance...
    David Yermack is a professor of finance at the NYU Stern School of Business, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1994. His research occurs mainly in the fields of executive compensation, corporate governance, and digital finance....