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Keynote and Other Guests

On this page, you will find all participants for the conference.

Keynote Speaker

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.

Panellists

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.

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. .

Magnus Olsson

Magnus Olsson is the CEO of Dalslands Sparbank. . 

Discussants

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. 

Vincenzo Pezone

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

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.  

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.  

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.

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.  

Gilles Chemla

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.  

Anil Shivdasani 

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