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Breanndán Ó Nualláin

Breanndán Ó Nualláin teaches Machine Learning and Data Science at the University of Amsterdam. He has special responsibility for the development of computing throughout the curriculum at Amsterdam University College, and is a member of their AI task force. With more than 30 years of experience and over 1,000 academic citations, he brings a deep…

Cyril Demaria

Cyril Demaria is a private markets expert advising investors on asset allocation, and funds and direct investments. He is currently Head of Private Markets Strategy at Julius Baer in Switzerland. Cyril is also the author of multiple books on private equity and asset allocation. Until 2020, Cyril was a Partner at Wellershoff & Partners, an…

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…

Frederik P. Schlingemann

Frederik P. Schlingemann is a full 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…

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…

Ingemar Dierickx

Ingemar Dierickx is the senior partner of I. D. Consulting, 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 metals,…

Jaap Barneveld

Jaap Barneveld is a lawyer at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek and professor at the University of Groningen. He specialises in M&A, capital markets and corporate governance. He has participated in friendly and hostile takeover bids, worked on innovative cross-border deal structures and advised on IPOs. He also regularly advises clients on a wide range of…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Matt Wieland

Matt (Matthew) Wieland is an Associate Professor at Miami University’s Farmer School of Business. Professor Wieland received his PhD and Master of Business from Indiana University after spending three years in public accounting in Cleveland. Prior to joining Miami University, Matt was on the accounting faculty at the University of Georgia and Indiana University’s Kelley…

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 holds a PhD in Financial Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, where he has also worked as a Visiting Professor of Finance at Wharton in 2005…

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,…

Paolo Fulghieri

Paolo Fulghieri is a Professor of Finance at the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina, USA. He 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: Journal…

Patrick Oberhaensli

Patrick Oberhaensli is a financial expert with over 30 years of 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…

Peter De Keyzer

Peter De Keyzer has more than two decades of experience in economic analysis, economic policy and strategic communication. As former chief economist at ABN AMRO Belgium, Degroof Petercam and BNP Paribas Fortis, Peter has participated in the public debate through interviews, editorials, opinion pieces as well as author of three books on economics and communication….

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…

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 perception….

Susan Hansen

Susan Hansen has worked in financial services since 1980. She is a Chartered Accountant (Australia and South Africa) and worked for a ‘Big Four’ Accounting firm in Cape Town and London, she then spent five years with a Wall Street Investment Bank. Before establishing a financial training consultancy, Susan was Chief Executive of Viaduct Harbour Holdings…

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…

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…

Zacharias Sautner

Zacharias Sautner is Professor of Sustainable Finance at the University of Zurich (UZH) and a Senior Chair at the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI). Through his research on ESG topics such as climate change or biodiversity, he provides insights on how finance can contribute to a more sustainable future. He enjoys spreading his sustainable finance views…