Keynote and Other Guests

Xavier Vives is professor of Economics and Finance, Abertis Chair of Regulation, Competition and Public Policy, and academic director of the Public-Private Research Center at IESE Business School. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley. Read more.

Deborah J. Lucas

Deborah Lucas is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy. Read more.

Prof. Dr. Jan Pieter Krahnen

Jan Pieter Krahnen is the Founding Director emeritus of the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE, and a retired Professor of Finance at Goethe University’s House of Finance. Read more.

Magnus Olsson

Magnus Olsson is the CEO of Dalslands Sparbank. Read more. 

Christopher James

Christopher M. James is the William H. Dial/SunTrust Eminent Scholar in Finance and Economics at the University of Florida. Professor James is also a senior advisor to Cornerstone Research. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Florida, he taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Oregon. Read more.

Vincenzo Pezone

Vincenzo Pezone is an Associate Professor affiliated with the Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TiSEM) within the Department of Finance. Read more. 

Loriana Pelizzon

Loriana Pelizzon is Deputy Scientific Director, Department Director of "Financial Markets" and Coordinator of Gender Equality at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE as well as Full Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt, Chair of Law and Finance. Read more. 

Richard T. Thakor

Richard T. Thakor is an Assistant Professor of Finance at University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management. He is a Research Affiliate at the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering (LFE), and is a Research Affiliate at the WFA Center for Finance and Accounting Research (WFA-CFAR) at Washington University in St. Louis. Read more. 

Konstantinos Koufopoulos

Professor Konstantinos Koufopoulos holds degrees from the University of Athens, University of Southampton, and the London School of Economics (LSE). His research interests span banking, contract, theory, corporate finance, and market microstructure. Read more. 

Vincent Maurin

Vincent Maurin is an Associate Professor in the department of Finance at HEC. He holds a master's degree from Ecole Polyechnique and a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute in Florence. Read more. 

Gilles Chemla

Gilles Chemla is a Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School and Co-director of Imperial's Centre for Financial Technology. Read more. 

Maher Asal

Professor Maher Asal is a staff member at the Divison of Real Estate, Economics, and Society. He coundts research in the fields of social sciences, economics, and business. Read more. 

Sony Biswas

Dr. Sonny Biswas's research interests lie in banking. He explores issues such as bank capital structure, the real effects of lending, and the regulation of financial institutions. Read more. 

Efraim Benmelech

Efraim Benmelech is Henry Bullock Professor of Finance & Real Estate, the Director of both the Guthrie Center for Real Estate Research and the Crown Family Israel Center for Innovation at the Kellogg School of Management and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Read more. 

Philip E. Strahan

Philip E. Strahan holds the John L. Collins, S.J. Chair in Finance at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Fellow at the Wharton Financial Institutions Center. Read more. 

Basil Williams

Dr Basil Williams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance at Imperial College Business School. He has a PhD in Finance from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Before joining Imperial, he was an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department of New York University. Read more.

Ilona Babenko

Ilona Babenko is an Associate Professor. Her interests mainly lie in the area of theoretical and empirical corporate finance, with a particular emphasis on executive and non-executive compensation and financial contracting. Read more. 

Anil Shivdasani 

Dr. Anil Shivdasani specializes in corporate financial strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate transaction. Read more.