Scientific Committee 2024

Vasso Ioannidou is a financial economist and academic specialising in banking and finance.

Jeffrey L. Callen is the Inaugural Rotman Chair in Accounting. His research interests include corporate valuation, accounting information and capital markets, efficiency measurement and the economics of the non-profit firm.

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.

Paul Whelan is an associate professor of Finance at CUHK Business School.

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.