Speakers

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Denis Sosyura is a professor of Finance at Arizona State University.