Scientific Committee

Prof. Dr. Aktas holds the Chair for Mergers & Acquisitions at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. He is also co-director of the Executive Education Program for Mergers & Acquisitions at WHU.

Kris is a professor and the Doyle Z. Williams Chair in Professional Accounting in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas.

Heitor Almeida is Stanley C. and Joan J. Golder Chair in Corporate Finance and academic director of I-degrees at Gies College of Business.

Constantinos' research focuses on behavioural finance, addressing issues related to learning and the formation of expectations in the context of portfolio choice, corporate decisions and empirical asset pricing.

Ramin Baghai holds the position of Associate Professor within the Department of Finance at Stockholm School of Economics.

Christof Beuselinck s a Professor of Finance at IESEG School of Management in Paris, specializing in asset pricing, corporate finance, financial econometrics, and risk management.

Jan Bouwens is full professor of accounting at the University of Amsterdam and is research fellow at the University of Cambridge.

Christos Cabolis is the IMD World Competitiveness Center’s Chief Economist and Head of Operations and Adjunct Professor of Economics and Competitiveness at IMD.

Stefano Cascino is an Associate Professor of Accounting in the Department of Accounting at the London School of Economics.

Mark's research interests are in financial reporting, including the links between accounting information and capital markets and audit markets.

Jean-Edouard Colliard is Associate Professor of Finance at HEC Paris, which he joined in 2014. He obtained a PhD in Economics in 2012 from the Paris School of Economics.

Maria Correia is an associate professor in the accounting department at the renowned London School of Economics.

Douglas Cumming, J.D., Ph.D., CFA, is the DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.

Professor Zhi Da is the Howard J. and Geraldine F. Korth Professor of Finance at the University of Notre Dame.

Cláudia Custódio is an Associate Professor of Finance at Imperial College since 2016. She was awarded her PhD from the London School of Economics in 2010.

Ralph De Haas is the Director of Research at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and a part-time Professor of Finance at KU Leuven.

Luca Del Viva is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Department of Financial Management and Control at ESADE.

Irem Demirci is an Associate Professor of Finance at Nova School of Business & Economics.

Olivier DESSAINT is an associate professor of finance at INSEAD.

Sebastian Doerr is an economist at the Bank for International Settlements, with research interests in the areas of financial intermediation and macroeconomics.

Tarik Driouchi is Professor of Financial Management at King's Business School.

George Drymiotes is a professor in the Accounting Department at TCU Neely School of Business.

Marie Dutordoir is a Professor of Finance at Alliance Manchester Business School.

Ester Einhorn is a professor at Tel Aviv University.

Xiaohua (David) Fang, Ph.D., CFA is an Associate Professor at Florida Atlantic University’s College of Business in Boca Raton, Florida.

Fabrizio Ferri joined the Miami Herbert Business School's faculty in 2018 after working at Harvard Business School, New York University and Columbia University.

Chris Florackis is a Professor of Finance in the Management School of the University of Liverpool.

Dr. Floros’ academic research appears in various journals, including: The Journal of Financial Economics...

Laurent Fresard is a professor at Universita della Svizzera italiana (USI).

Haoyu Gao is a Wu Yuzhang Distinguished Professor at Renmin University of China.

Juan Manuel joined the Department of Business Administration of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 2005.

Pedro Gete is a finance researcher whose work centers on credit markets, with a particular emphasis on...

Elizabeth A. Gordon is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Accounting at the Fox School.

Paul Guest is Professor of Corporate Finance and Head of Department, Accounting & Financial Management at King's Business School.

Jens Hagendorff is Professor of Finance and Executive MBA Programme Director at King's College London.

Michael Haliassos has held the Chair of Macroeconomics and Finance at the Goethe University Frankfurt since 2004.

Dr. Guanming He is a Professor of Accounting at Durham University, where he currently serves as Director of Internationalization for the Department and the Business School.

Björn Imbierowicz is Economist in the Research Center of the Deutsche Bundesbank and...

Helena Isidro is full professor of accounting at Iscte Business School in Lisbon.

Sofia Johan is an Associate Professor of Finance at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University.

Dr Elena Kalotychou (Associate Professor) is the Dean of the School of Management and Economics at the Cyprus University of Technology.

Yigitcan Karabulut is an Associate Professor of Finance at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

Dr. Bin KE is Provost’s Chair Professor at the NUS Business School.

Neil is the current Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex and a Professor of Finance at Essex Business School.

George Korniotis is a professor of finance and the Bank of America Scholar at the Miami Herbert Business School at the University of Miami.

Andros Kourtellos is Department Chair and Professor of Economics at the University of Cyprus.

Professor Yu (Flora) Kuang is a Professor of Accounting at the University of Melbourne.

Spyridon Lagaras is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Edward Lee is a Professor of Accounting and Finance at the Alliance Manchester Business School of the University of Manchester.

Dr. Li holds the Canada Research Chair in Corporate Governance and W. Maurice Young Endowed Chair in Finance at the UBC Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia.

Yifan Li is an Associate Professor of Finance at Alliance Manchester Business School.

Ningzhong Li is a Professor of Accounting at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas.

Gilad Livne is a professor of accounting at the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London.

Christodoulos Louca is Professor in Finance at the Cyprus University of Technology.

Maria Loumioti is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Dr. Guang Ma is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at Rutgers Business School.

Esfandiar Maasoumi (born March 5, 1950) is an econometrician and an economist.

Christos Makridis is an associate research professor at Arizona State University.

Juan Mao is an associate professor of accounting at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Maria (Mary) Marchica is Professor of Finance at Alliance Manchester Business School.

Mei Wang is Professor of Behavioral Finance at the WHU — Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany.

Ken Merkley is the Conrad Prebys Professor of Accounting at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.

Alexander Michaelides is a Professor of Finance at Imperial Business School since 2013.

Duc Duy (Louis) Nguyen is Professor in Finance at Durham University Business School.

Arna Olafsson is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Department of Finance at Copenhagen Business School.

Professor Erik Olson is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Colorado.

Matias Ossandon Busch is Director of Financial Stability at CEMLA and Research Fellow at the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH).

Marios Panayides, Associate Professor of Finance.

Neil D. Pearson is the Harry A. Brandt Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois.

Professor Dimitris Petmezas is a Professor of Finance at Durham University Business School.

Gordon Phillips is the Laurence F. Whittemore Professor of Business Administration and a professor of finance at the Tuck School of Business.

Dennis Philip holds a PhD in Finance. His research contributes to the understanding of the interactions between firm characteristics and financial markets.

Annalisa Prencipe is KPMG Professor of Accounting at Bocconi University.

Alessandro Previtero is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University.

Professor Rau is the Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School.

Stefano Rossi is a Professor of Finance in the Finance Department at Bocconi University, where he is currently Chair of the Finance Department.

Plutarchos Sakellaris is Professor of Economics and Finance at Athens University of Economics and Business.

Carlo Sala is an Associate Professor at ESADE Business School.

Zacharias is Professor of Sustainable Finance at University of Zurich.

Christos is a lecturer at the Cyprus University of Technology. He has published in various international refereed journals.

Giorgo Sertsios is the Sheldon B. Lubar Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and Finance Area Chair.

Elena Simintzi is a Professor of Finance at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

George Skiadopoulos is Professor of Finance at the Department of Banking and Financial Management of the University of Piraeus and at the School of Economics and Finance of Queen Mary University of London.

Yannis is a CPA Australia and his work experience includes positions as an accountant (in Greece).

Margarita Tsoutsoura is an Associate Professor of Finance at Olin Business School, at the Washington University in St. Louis.

Francesco is a Professor of Finance at Durham University.

Patrick Verwijmeren is Professor of Corporate Finance at the Erasmus School of Economics (Erasmus University Rotterdam).

Clare Wang is a Professor of Accounting at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder.

Professor Paul Whelan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance.

Avi Wohl is a professor of Finance.

Professor Geoffrey Wood is Professor and DanCap Private Equity Endowed Chair, and Department Chair DAN Management at Western University in Canada.

Anne is an Editor for Journal of Business Finance and Accounting and Associate Editor for Accounting and Business Research.

David Yermack is a professor of finance at the NYU Stern School of Business.

Wanli Zhao is currently a full professor of accounting at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy

Francesca Zucchi is a Senior Research Economist in the Directorate General Research of the European Central Bank.

Mengxin Zhao is a Financial Economist at the Office of Corporate Finance. 

Rustam Zufarov earned a PhD in Accounting from Rice University in 2020.