Speakers

Alessandro Previtero is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, and a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Originally from Italy, Alessandro received his Ph.D. from the University of...

Gordon Phillips is the Laurence F. Whittemore Professor of Business Administration and a professor of finance at the Tuck School of Business. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a visiting research...

Neil D. Pearson is the Harry A. Brandt Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Research Fellow of the Canadian Derivatives Institute. He previously served on the faculty of the Simon Graduate School of Business Administration...

Marios Panayides, Associate Professor of Finance earned a Ph.D. from Yale University, an M.A. in statistics from Yale University, an M.A. in mathematical sciences from Oxford University, and a bachelor’s degree in mathematical sciences with First Class Honors from Oxford...

Professor Erik Olson is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Colorado. Named to the Poets & Quants Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors and Marquis Magazine’s “Who’s Who in America” in 2024, Professor Erik Olson’s research primarily focuses on...

Ken Merkley is the Conrad Prebys Professor of Accounting at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He received a PhD from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining Kelley, he taught in the residential MBA program at Cornell University’s Johnson...

Juan Mao is an associate professor of accounting at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She served as the Senior Economic Research Fellow at the PCAOB from 2023 to 2024. Dr. Mao earned her PhD from the University of...

Christos Makridis is an associate research professor at Arizona State University, associate faculty at the Complexity Science Hub, senior researcher at Gallup, non-resident fellow at both the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University and the Digital Economy Lab...

Esfandiar Maasoumi (born March 5, 1950) is an econometrician and an economist. He is a Distinguished Professor at Emory University.[1] He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the London School of Economics. He earned his Ph.D.in 1977, also from...

Dr. Guang Ma is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems and Director of the Master of Accountancy in Accounting & Analytics Program at Rutgers Business School. Dr. Ma previously served as a faculty member at...