Scientific Committee 2024

Christos Cabolis is the IMD World Competitiveness Center’s Chief Economist and Head of Operations and Adjunct Professor of Economics and Competitiveness at IMD.

Prof. Dr. Martin Brown's research is focused on Financial intermediation, Finance & Development and Experimental economics and has been published e.g. in Econometrica, Economic Journal, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Financial Intermediation, and Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

Ramin Baghai holds the position of Associate Professor within the Department of Finance at Stockholm School of Economics.

Sofia Anyfantaki is a Research Economist with specialisation in econometrics at the Department of Research and Economic Analysis of the Bank of Greece (Special Studies Division).

Constantinos' research focuses on behavioural finance, addressing issues related to learning and the formation of expectations in the context of portfolio choice, corporate decisions and empirical asset pricing.

Heitor Almeida is Stanley C. and Joan J. Golder Chair in Corporate Finance and academic director of I-degrees at Gies College of Business.

Kris is a professor and the Doyle Z. Williams Chair in Professional Accounting in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas.

Prof. Dr. Aktas holds the Chair for Mergers & Acquisitions at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. He is also co-director of the Executive Education Program for Mergers & Acquisitions at WHU.