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.

Sofia Anyfantaki is a Research Economist with specialisation in econometrics at the Department of Research and Economic Analysis of the Bank of Greece (Special Studies Division).

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.

Prof. Dr. Martin Brown's research is focused on Financial intermediation, Finance & Development and Experimental economics and has been published e.g. in Econometrica, Economic Journal, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Financial Intermediation, and Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

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.

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.

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.

Manthos Delis is a Professor of Financial Economics at Audencia Business School and Member of the Board of Directors at the University of Ioannina.

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

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. She has a PhD in Applied Economics from the Catholic University of Leuven (Louvain), Belgium (2006).

Ester Einhorn is a professor at Tel Aviv University.

Chris Florakis is a Professor of Finance in the Management School of the University of Liverpool. He has previously held part-time positions at the Universities of York and Bristol.

Dr. Floros’ academic research appears in the in the following journals: Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Management and Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. 

Juan Manuel holds a Ph.D. in Accounting by the University of Valencia. Before joining Carlos III he was a lecturer (assistant professor) in the Department of Accounting and Finance at Lancaster University.

Prof. Gete’s research focuses on credit markets with applications to topics including Real Estate, Finance, International Economics, and Macroeconomics.

Claudia Girardone is Dean of Essex Business School and Professor of Banking and Finance.

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.

Haliassos holds the Chair of Macroeconomics and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt. He is Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, UK), Founding Director of the CEPR Network on Household Finance (2015- ), Research Professor and Executive Board member of the IMFS.

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 School of Business.

Björn Imbierowicz is an Economist in the Research Center of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Head of the research focus group on monetary policy implementation, and Advisor to the Eurosystem Research Network “Challenges for Monetary Policy Transmission in a Changing World” (ChaMP).

Sofia Johan is an Associate Professor of Finance at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University and a Phil Smith Fellow at The Phil Smith Center for Free Enterprise at the College of Business.

Nathan Joseph is a Professor of Accounting and Finance at the Department of Economics and Finance, Brunel University London.

Dr Elena Kalotychou is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Commerce, Finance and Shipping at the Cyprus University of Technology.

Dr. Ke is a Professor of Accounting and Provost’s Chair at the NUS Business School since 2015.

Neil Kellard is a professor in Finance at the University of Essex.

Sotirios Kokas is a Professor in Finance at the Essex Business School and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

George Korniotis is a professor of finance at the Miami Herbert Business School at the University of Miami. He is also a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Yu (Flora) Kuang is Professor of Accounting at the University of Melbourne. She earned her PhD in Accounting from Tilburg University.

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.

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

Christodoulos Louca is Associate Professor in Finance at the Cyprus University of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Cyprus.

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

Maasoumi is considered by some as an intellectual leader of the Empirical/Statistical “Income Inequality” literature, with influential works on multidimensional well-being, mobility, and poverty.

Dr. Juan Mao is an associate professor of accounting at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Mao earned her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas and has received training in both accounting and information systems.

Ken Merkley is a professor in Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

Alexander Michaelides is a Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School since September 2013, and Research Fellow at CEPR (International Macroeconomics and Financial Economics Programmes).

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.

Duc Duy (Louis) Nguyen is Professor in Finance at Durham University Business School. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Edinburgh.

Helena holds a PhD in Accounting and Finance from Lancaster University, UK.

Professor Olson is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Vanderbilt. His research interests include capital markets, taxation, corporate governance, and institutional investors.

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

Marios Panayides holds the position of Associate Professor of Finance within the Finance division at the University of Oklahoma.

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 Fundamental Analysis.

Professor Dimitris Petmezas is a Professor of Finance in his second tenure at Durham University Business School as he also held the position of Lecturer in Finance over the period 2005-2007.

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

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).

Raghavendra Rau is a professor of finance at the University of Cambridge.

Plutarchos Sakellaris is Professor at Athens University of Economics and Business. Professor Sakellaris conducts research on banking, business investment, business cycles, economic growth and education.

Carlo Sala is an Associate Professor of Finance in the Department of Economics, Finance, and Accounting at ESADE Business School.

Zacharias is Professor of Sustainable Finance at University of Zurich and Senior Chair at the Swiss Finance Institute.

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

Denis Sosyura is the James and Elizabeth Robertson Professor of Finance at Arizona State University.

Konstantinos is a corporate governance scholar. He holds a Chair in Accounting and Finance at AMBS since 2015.

After completing his undergraduate studies at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens (BSc in Business Administration), Yannis undertook the MBA Programme at the University of Stirling with specialisation in Corporate Finance. In November 2009, he completed his PhD in Accounting at the University of Edinburgh.

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). He is also a research fellow at the Tinbergen Institute and a part-time Research Professor at the University of Melbourne and Glasgow.

Dr. Mei Wang is the Chair of Behavioural Finance at WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management.

Paul Whelan is an associate professor of Finance at CUHK Business School.

Avi Wohl is a professor of Finance. He holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Sciences from Tel Aviv University, an M.Sc in Management Sciences - Operations Research from Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Management and a Ph.D in Finance, also from Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Management.

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

Anne has a PhD from University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Anne is a Fellow of the Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand in recognition of service, and a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

David L. Yermack is the Albert Fingerhut Professor of Finance and Business Transformation at New York University Stern School of Business.

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

Rustam Zufarov is an assistant professor in the Department of Accounting at the University of Illinois in Chicago.