Diane K. Denis is Professor & Katz Alumni Chair in Finance at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration at the University of Pittsburgh. Professor Denis has published widely in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate...

Ken Merchant holds the Deloitte & Touche LLP Chair of Accountancy at the University of Southern California. He has taught mostly in USC’s executive and graduate business and accounting programs. Previously he served as Senior Associate Dean-Corporate Programs in...

Renée Adams is a Professor of Finance and Director of UNSW Business School’s Women in Leadership Network at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Her background includes positions with the Stockholm School of Economics and the Federal Reserve Bank of New...

Joseph P. H. Fan is Professor of Finance and Co-Director of the Institute of Economics and Finance at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from the Katz Graduate School of Business of the University of Pittsburgh. Before joining CUHK, he has...

Dr. Yan “Anthea” Zhang is the Fayez Sarofim Vanguard Professor of Strategic Management and the Area Coordinator of the Strategy and Environment Group at the Jessie H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University. She was a Professor of Management at China Europe...

Cynthia E. Clark is an associate professor of management at Bentley University (Boston, U.S.A) where she also serves as the director of the Harold S. Geneen Institute of Corporate Governance, a research fellow at the Center for Business Ethics and the director of the Bentley...

Praveen Kumar is the Cullen Distinguished Chaired Professor of Finance and the Director of the Gutierrez Energy Management Institute in the Bauer College of Business at University of Houston. He has served as the co-Editor-in-Chief of Corporate Governance: An International Review...

Michael Useem is the William & Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Useem offers training programs on leadership and governance for managers and...

Douglas Cumming, J.D., Ph.D., CFA, is the DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University. His research covers topics ranging from securities regulation, stock exchange trading rules, mutual funds, hedge...

Claudia Girardone is Professor of Banking and Finance at Essex Business School of the University of Essex. She is also Director of the Essex Finance Centre (EFiC) and the School’s Director of Research. Since 2015 she is a Visiting Scholar in the Competition and Impact...