Speakers

    Gordon Phillips is the Laurence F. Whittemore Professor of Business Administration and a professor of finance. He teaches the 2nd year course Venture Capital and Private Equity and specializes in private equity, mergers, and the impact of financial decisions on...
    Professor Beatty has held the Deloitte and Touche Chair of Accounting since 2006 when she was named the first female endowed chair in the history of the (Fisher) College of Business. She was appointed as the first female full professor...
    Since 1992, Hercules Haralambides is Professor of Maritime Economics and Logistics (MEL), having taught at 9 universities (and in 7 different countries), most prominent of which being Erasmus University Rotterdam (his principal appointment for 26 years), National University of Singapore,...
    Theodore Sougiannis is the KPMG Distinguished Professor of Accountancy and interim head of the Department of Accountancy. Sougiannis joined the Gies College of Business faculty in 1990 and has held numerous leadership roles within the College. He served as the...
    Dimitris Papanikolaou is a professor in Finance at Kellogg School of Management.
    Wayne Landsman’s research focuses on the role of accounting information in capital price formation. Topics of research include pensions, employee stock options, asset securitisation and fair value accounting. He teaches courses in financial accounting and financial reporting. Dr. Landsman served...
    Robert Parker Chair Professor of Finance in McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and Associate Editor.
    Professor Sugata Roychowdhury’s research focuses on the influence of managers’ incentives on their reporting and disclosure choices, as well as operational and investment decisions. His most recent research focuses on the interaction between voluntary and mandatory disclosures, the implications of...
    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.