Speakers

Helena holds a PhD in Accounting and Finance from Lancaster University, UK.

Duc Duy (Louis) Nguyen is Professor in Finance at Durham University Business School. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Edinburgh.

Neil D. Pearson is the Harry A. Brandt Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Research Fellow of the Canadian Derivatives Institute.

Alexander Michaelides is a Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School since September 2013, and Research Fellow at CEPR (International Macroeconomics and Financial Economics Programmes).

Ken Merkley is a professor in Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

Dr. Juan Mao is an associate professor of accounting at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Mao earned her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas and has received training in both accounting and information systems.

Maasoumi is considered by some as an intellectual leader of the Empirical/Statistical “Income Inequality” literature, with influential works on multidimensional well-being, mobility, and poverty.

Maria Loumioti is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Christodoulos Louca is Associate Professor in Finance at the Cyprus University of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Cyprus.

Gilad Livne is a professor of accounting at the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London.