Programme

Keynote Speaker

Research Committee

If accepted for presentation, one of the following eminent academics will be chairing your session and acting as the primary discussant.

Carol Alexander Professor of Finance, University of Sussex

Carol Alexander is Professor of Finance at Sussex and Co-Editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance. Recently she became visiting professor at the Oxford campus of Peking University Business School having taken the John von Neumann Chair at TU Munich in 2018. Carol was the founding chair of the Academic Advisory panel for the Professional Risk Manager's International Association (PRMIA) and later Chair of the Board. Her four-volume textbook on Market Risk Analysis (Wiley, 2008) is the definitive guide to the subject. Her latest interests focus on Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies and her forthcoming book (with Douglas Cumming, FAU) is another Wiley text on Corruption and Fraud in Financial Markets. She also consults for banks, asset managers, exchanges, pension funds and other financial institutions.

Hervé Alexandre Professor of Banking and Finance, University Paris Dauphine

Hervé Alexandre is a Professor of Finance at Université Paris Dauphine. He holds a master in Econometrics, a master’s in finance and a PhD in Finance. His fields of teaching and research are Banking Risk and Financial Intermediation. He has published several academic articles in international journals (Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of Financial Services Research, Journal of Corporate Finance, …).

Ephraim Clark Professor of Finance, Middlesex University

Ephraim Clark is Professor of Finance at the Middlesex University. Prior to this he has been a financial analyst, forecaster and consultant. Ephraim holds two PhD’s, one in Development Economics and the other in Financial Economics and his current interests include continuous time finance, real options, political risk analysis, emerging markets, capital budgeting and issues in corporate strategy and international business. He is the founding editor of the European Journal of Finance. His research has been published in numerous journals, including Management Science, Journal of International Money and Finance and Journal of Banking and Finance.

Douglas Cumming Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship, Florida Atlantic University

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 spans areas that include entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial finance, venture capital, private equity, IPOs, law and finance, market surveillance and hedge funds.  He is the Managing Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Corporate Finance, and Annals of Corporate Governance, and an Associate Editor at the British Journal of Management and Corporate Governance: An International Review.  He has published over 170 articles in leading refereed academic journals including Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Research Policy, and the Economic Journal, among others.  He is the Vice-President / President-Elect of the International Corporate Governance Society, which is holding a conference at the University of Essex in October 2019.

Dimitrios Gounopoulos Professor of Accounting and Finance, University of Bath

'Dimitrios Gounopoulos is Professor of Accounting and Finance at the University of Bath and the Head of Department (Research) in the Accounting and Finance Group of the School of Management. Prior to this he was a Professor at Newcastle University. He is the External Examiner for Imperial College, London (Full Time MBA and Executive MBA) and a consultant to several private companies and government consulting projects related to electronics. His research focuses on Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), bonds structure, corporate governance, executive compensation and earnings management. He published in numerous academic journals including the Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Economic History Review etc. He serves as an occasional columnist in Columbia University, School of Law prestigious CLS Blue Sky Blog on issues relating regulations intervention as well as a Visiting Research Scholar. 

Ranko Jelic Professor of Finance, Sussex

Ranko Jelic is Professor of Finance at Sussex, convening the PhD Finance programme and leading the Business Finance research group. He has taught at several universities in the UK and worldwide. He has held various academic positions (e.g. School Director of Research, Head of Department, Director of PhD programme, etc.) and served as external examiner on programmes delivered by universities and professional bodies. Twelve of his Ph.D. students have taken up academic positions at UK and overseas universities and he received a University of Birmingham award for excellence in doctoral supervision.

Andreas Kaeck Professor of Finance, University of Sussex

Andreas Kaeck is Professor of Finance at the University of Sussex. Prior to joining the Finance Group at Sussex, he was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of St Gallen (Switzerland). His research interests cover investment-related research problems, as well as topics in financial econometrics, derivatives pricing and asset pricing. His current work includes studying asset pricing effects of earnings announcement risk. His research has been published in leading international journals, including the Review of Financial Studies and the Review of Finance.

Georgios Panos Professor of Finance, University of Glasgow

Georgios Panos is Professor of Finance at the University of Glasgow, specialising in household, personal and behavioural finance. He was previously at the Universities of Stirling and Essex. His research has been featured in outlets such as the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Banking and Finance, and Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, inter alia. Georgios has served as a consultant to the World Bank in multiple occasions and is a principal investigator for a collaborative EU-funded Horizon 2020 project on financial awareness and stability.

Anita Pennathur Professor of Financial Services, Florida Atlantic University

Dr. Pennathur is the O’Maley Distinguished Professor at the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University and a Fellow in the Stone Initiative on Law, Economics, and Business and also serves as the Faculty Director for the Navitas International Programs for the College of Business. Her research covers financial markets and institutions, corporate governance and policies, real estate finance, and more recently, blockchain technologies.   She has published widely in leading journals in finance, real estate, and accounting, to include Real Estate Economics, the Journal of Banking and Finance, and the Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance.  Additionally, she conducts training and development programs in Higher Education Leadership.

Klaus Schaeck Professor of Banking and Finance, University of Bristol

Klaus Schaeck is Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of Bristol, previously at Lancaster, Bangor and Southampton Universities and at Cass Business School. Klaus was a frequent visitor at the International Monetary Fund, held several visiting appointments at the Deutsche Bundesbank, and he was also a consultant in the ECB’s Financial Research Division, and for the inaugural issue of the World Bank's Global Financial Development Report. Klaus has publications in the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Financial Intermediation, the Review of Finance, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, the Journal of Corporate Finance, and other internationally recognised journals.

Olinga Ta'eed Visiting Professor in Blockchain, Birmingham City University

Olinga Ta’eed is Visiting Professor in Blockchain at Birmingham City University; previously he led a successful private sector career retiring in 2008 at the age of 48. He is Director of the not-for-profit Centre for Citizenship, Enterprise and Governance which is the world’s leading Think Tank on the Movement of value with over 125,000 members. He is accredited as the inventor of the Social Earnings Ratio, which The Vatican in 2014 describes as “the fastest adopted social impact metric in the world”, and in 2017 conducted the UK’s first FCA guided ICO. In April 2019 he was appointed chair of the Chinese Government’s regulated E-Commerce Blockchain Committee who have oversight of 70% of the global blockchain and cryptocurrency markets, all of which emanates from China. He is Chief Editor of peer reviewed Frontiers in Blockchain, Social Value & Intangibles Review, and Efficiency Exchange.

Richard Tol Professor of Economics, University of Sussex

Richard S.J. Tol is a Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Sussex and the Professor of the Economics of Climate Change, Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is a member of the Academia Europaea. Previously, he was a Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, the Michael Otto Professor of Sustainability and Global Change at Hamburg University and an Adjunct Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. He has had visiting appointments at the Canadian Centre for Climate Research, University of Victoria, British Colombia, at the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, University College London, and at the Princeton Environmental Institute and the Department of Economics, Princeton University.

Julian Williams Professor in Accounting and Finance, Durham University

Julian Williams is a Professor in Accounting and Finance at the Durham University. He started at Durham University Business School in January 2014. He has published widely on the topics of financial regulation, risk management and portfolio management. Julian’s main interests lie in market microstructure, regulating complex derivative securities and the impact of the liquidity of these instruments on the cost of capital for individuals, companies and governments. Julian’s work has been commented on and referenced in the Financial Times, the Press and Journal and OECD publications.

Awards

Awards will be given to the best paper in each stream and the best poster. The author of the best paper overall will be awarded the title ‘Young Finance Scholar of 2019’.

Contact

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have further questions or have any special requests regarding the conference schedule.

Johannes Höbelt
j.hobelt@sussex.ac.uk