
Benoît Leleux
Benoît Leleux is the Stephan Schmidheiny Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at IMD (International Institute for Management Development) in Lausanne, Switzerland where he directs entrepreneurship and innovation related programs. He was director of Research and Development and Director of the MBA Program. Previously he was Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD and Director of the…
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Cyril Demaria
Cyril Demaria is a private markets expert advising investors on asset allocation, and funds and direct investments. He is also the author of multiple books on private equity and asset allocation. Until 2020, Cyril was a Partner at Wellershoff & Partners, an independent CIO service provider for family offices and financial institutions in Switzerland. His extensive knowledge…
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Eelco Fiole
Dr Eelco Fiole, CFA is co-founder (2015-) and the managing partner of Alpha Governance Partners, a fiduciary services partnership with partners serving as risk governance specialists in complex investments, blockchain, sustainability and fintech, across Europe, North America and Asia. Furthermore, he is adjunct professor finance ethics at the Universities of Lausanne and Neuchatel. Based in Zurich and Singapore and with almost…
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Frans van Loef
Frans van Loef is Founder of Freecapacity and specialized in strategy execution and leadership (team) development. He is a senior executive with over 20 years’ experience as a driving force behind strategy execution, business growth, and profitability for international companies. Frans has an entrepreneurial background with 2 MBO experiences (CVC Capital as Private Equity provider)….
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Frederik P. Schlingemann
Frederik P. Schlingemann is a professor of finance at the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. He served as the Finance Area Director (Chair) from 2009 to 2012 and has chaired the Doctoral and Research Committee at Katz since 2018. He held the Barry J. Epstein Faculty Fellowship from 2010 to…
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Hersh Shefrin
Hersh Shefrin is the Mario L. Belotti Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University. He is one of the pioneers in the behavioral approach to economics and finance. The January 2001 issue of CFO magazine listed him among the academic stars of finance. A 2003 article in the American Economic Review listed him as one of the top fifteen…
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Ingemar Dierickx
Ingemar Dierickx is a senior partner of D&AC – Negotiation Advisors, a company that offers a wide range of negotiation support services. For three decades, he has advised clients in a broad range of industries including banking, insurance and reinsurance, consulting, accounting, legal services, travel, aerospace, the automobile industry, retailing, oil and gas, mining and…
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Jim Wahlen
Jim Wahlen is Professor of Accounting, Chair of the Accounting Department, and the James R. Hodge Chair of Excellence at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. His teaching and research interests focus on financial accounting and the capital markets. Professor Wahlen has co-authored a textbook on financial statement analysis and valuation, titled Financial Reporting…
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Joost de Haas
Joost de Haas is an Adjunct-Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD since 2009, where he teaches ‘Managing Corporate Turnarounds’ in both the MBA and EMBA programs. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Stellenbosch Business School and the Rotterdam School of Management. Joost has (co)founded a number of businesses in various industries, has acquired…
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Kevin Kaiser
Kevin Kaiser is Senior Director of the Alternative Investments Initiative and Adjunct Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was Professor of Management Practice and on the finance faculty at INSEAD from 1992 until 2017. Kevin’s research has focused on private equity, corporate restructuring and financial distress, more recently oriented around…
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Ludovic Phalippou
Ludovic Phalippou is Head of the FAME Group at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and specializes in private equity and asset management. He is the author of the best-selling book Private Equity Laid Bare and Professor of Financial Economics at Saïd Business School. He was named as one of “The 40 Most Outstanding Business…
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Luisa Alemany
Luisa Alemany, PhD is an Associate Professor of Management Practice and the Academic Director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital at London Business School. She was a Visiting Professor at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Formerly she held the position of Associate Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at ESADE Business School in Spain. Her main areas of…
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Marwan Sinaceur
A French/Moroccan national, Marwan Sinaceur is Full Professor at ESSEC Business School in Paris. Before that, he was a Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD for thirteen years. During this period Marwan received the Deans’ Commendation for Excellence in MBA Teaching twice and he also was co-director of the Behavioral Research Center. Marwan Sinaceur received…
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Matti Suominen
Matti Suominen is a Professor of Finance at the Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki. From 1997 until 2006 he was a Professor of Finance at INSEAD. Matti has previously worked as an Engagement Manager at the European Corporate Finance Practice of McKinsey & Co. In addition, for several years he was involved with…
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Moorad Choudhry
Professor Moorad Choudhry is an independent non-executive director at Recognise Bank Limited, in London, and at the Loughborough Building Society. He was latterly Treasurer, Corporate Banking Division at The Royal Bank of Scotland. Moorad is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment, a Fellow of the London Institute of Banking and Finance,…
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Paolo Fulghieri
Paolo Fulghieri is a Professor of Finance at the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina, USA. Paolo Fulghieri is actively conducting research in corporate finance and in its interactions with investment and commercial banking. As a result of his research activity, he has published several papers in leading finance journals, such as:…
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Patrick Oberhaensli
Patrick Oberhaensli is a financial expert with over 30 years’ experience in banking and finance. He is the Founder and CEO of his own finance related service company, EVOLIDS FINANCE LLC. Patrick has been teaching finance courses to professionals in various specialized domains, such as the preparation to the CFA and CAIA exams, since 2009….
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Peter De Keyzer
Peter De Keyzer has extensive experience as (Chief) Economist at KBC Asset Management, ABN AMRO Bank, Petercam and BNP Paribas Fortis. He is a Guest Lecturer at the University of Antwerp and has held teaching positions at various other universities. Peter has over a decade of experience in giving presentations, moderating debates, and participating in…
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Pierre Hillion
Pierre Hillion is a Professor of Finance, de Picciotto Chaired Professor of Alternative Investments, and the Program Director of the INSEAD-Macquarie Master of Finance. From 1999 to 2004, he held the Shell Professorship in Finance. He serves as a visiting professor at the University of California in Los Angeles and the California Institute of Technology….
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Raghavendra Rau
Raghu Rau is the Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance at the Cambridge Judge Business School. He is also a founder and director of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), as well as a member of the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network (CCGN). Raghu Rau has taught at a number of universities around the world, including the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de…
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Russell Walker
Russell Walker is a recognized expert in analytics and risk management. He is Director of Experiential Learning in Analytics and Associate Professor of Teaching at the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. He was previously Clinical Professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He teaches and has developed novel…
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Stefan Zeisberger
Stefan Zeisberger is Professor at Radboud University (Netherlands) and at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). Previously he held positions at, among others, the California Institute of Technology and Stony Brook University in New York where he founded and directed the Center for Behavioral Finance. Stefan’s research focuses on investor psychology, in particular risk preferences and…
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Susan Hansen
Susan has worked in financial services since 1980. She is a Chartered Accountant (Australia and South Africa) and teaches several short courses for The University of Auckland Business School. She has worked for a ‘Big Four’ Accounting firm for eight years in Cape Town and London, and spent five years with a Wall Street Investment Bank. Before establishing a…
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Timothy Galpin
Tim Galpin is Senior Lecturer of Strategy and Innovation, Director of the Postgraduate Diploma in Strategy and Innovation at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, best-selling author, Board Member, and an advisor to Boards and senior management. Tim brings over three decades of practical knowledge and experience, combined with proven approaches and pragmatic tools to…
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Tobias Jaeger
With more than 15 years of experience, Tobias Jaeger is a distinguished expert in risk management and organizational resilience. Capitalizing on his multiple C-level experiences and his successful entrepreneurial ventures, Tobias has built his career on the motto “safeguarding the guardians” of capital, whether human, financial, intellectual, social, or reputational. Throughout his career, Tobias has…
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