from Paris Dauphine University and (HDR in Economics) from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Professor Coën has a PhD in finance from the University of Grenoble and a PhD in economics from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Douglas Cumming, CFA, is the DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University. He has published over 180 articles in leading refereed academic journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. Professor Cumming is the Managing Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Corporate Finance (January 2018–December 2020), and the incoming Managing Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Management (January 2020–December 2022). He is the Founding Editor of Annals of Corporate Governance (January 2016–current). Professor Cumming has published 18 academic books. His work has been reviewed in numerous media outlets, including the Chicago Tribune, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, Canadian Business, National Post, and The New Yorker. Professor Cumming holds a BCom in economics and finance from McGill University, an MA in economics from Queen's University, and a JD and PhD from the University of Toronto.
Somnath Das is Professor and Coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Accounting at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Previously, he was on the faculty at University of California–Berkeley's Haas School of Business. His research focuses on corporate disclosure, financial analysts, and firm performance. He has published in leading academic journals such as The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Journal of Finance, among others. His research has received coverage in the business press, including The Wall Street Journal. He teaches courses in financial and managerial accounting. Professor Das has a bachelor's degree in physics from St. Stephens College, Delhi, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a master's in public policy as well as a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University.
Xiaohua Diao is the Dean of the School of Finance at Chongqing Technology and Business University, China. He is a Professor of Finance at the Research Center for Economy of Upper Reaches of the Yangtse River of Chongqing Technology and Business University. His research primarily focuses on financial risk management. He has published in more than 20 peer-reviewed journals and received research grants from central and state governments. Dean Diao also served as a consultant of the China Development Bank and on independent boards of directors of several publicly traded firms in China. He holds a master's degree with a specialization in accounting from Xiamen University.
Shantanu Dutta is an Associate Professor of Finance and Telfer Fellow in Global Finance at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa. Before beginning his academic career, he was a finance manager at Lafarge, a world leader in construction materials. Professor Dutta's research focuses on mergers and acquisitions, media coverage and financial decisions, corporate governance, and dividend policy. He has published in the Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Corporate Finance, Financial Management, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Business Finance & Accounting among others. He is a recipient of the SSHRC grant and Barclays Global Investors Canada Research Award (2006) for the best paper on the Canadian security market. He also received the Literati Network Award for Excellence in 2009 and 2014 for articles in the International Journal of Managerial Finance. He holds a PhD in finance from Carleton University.
Aaron Filbeck, CFA, CAIA, CIPM, is the Associate Director of Content Development at CAIA Association. He is involved with the development of the CAIA Charter Program's curriculum, supports the Association's academic partnership program, and serves as Content Director and Assistant Editor of Alternative Investment Analyst Review (AIAR), a practitioner-focused journal published by the Association. Before joining CAIA, Mr. Filbeck was a portfolio manager for a registered investment adviser, where he oversaw portfolio construction and manager research efforts for high-net-worth individuals. He received a BS in finance with distinction and a Master of Finance from Pennsylvania State University.
Didier Folus is Professor of Finance at the Management School, Paris Nanterre University, and also teaches at Paris Dauphine University, École des Ponts ParisTech, and in MBA and executive master programs. His primary research interests are in the areas of long-term investment exposure to risks and insurance securitization in a risk management perspective. He has published in Applied Economic Letters, Bankers, Markets & Investors, and Applied Economics, among others, He has also written several book chapters. Professor Folus consults for institutional investors, insurance companies, and banks in the field of innovative financial products. He holds a master's degree in finance from Paris Dauphine University, an MS in actuarial science from ENSAE (Paris), and a PhD in finance from Paris Dauphine University.
Xudong Fu is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the College of Business, University of Louisville. His research focuses on various topics in corporate finance including mergers and acquisitions, equity offerings, corporate governance, debt contracts, insider trading, and corporate social responsibility. Professor Fu has published in such journals as Financial Management, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Journal of Empirical Finance. He received a PhD from the University of Alabama.
Gaurav Gupta, CFA, FRM, is an analytics consultant at SRNL International in New Jersey. Before joining SRNL International, he worked as an analyst at OpenLink Financial LLC. He also has experience in managing a secondary steel manufacturing plant in India, where he managed the production as well as purchase teams of the business. He obtained a BS in engineering from Panjab University and an MBA with a double major in finance and business analytics with distinction from Hofstra University.
Hunter M. Holzhauer is the Robert L. Maclellan and UC Foundation Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. Professor Holzhauer is an award-winning professor in research, teaching, and service. He has taught various graduate and undergraduate classes, including corporate finance, intermediate finance, investments, financial analysis, behavioral finance, portfolio management, and derivatives. His financial industry experience includes positions as a credit analyst with Colonial Bank and a financial planner and fixed-income portfolio manager with AmSouth Bank. Since 2013, Professor Holzhauer has published 16 research papers and seven chapters on such topics as behavioral finance, alternative investments, socially responsible investing, financial risk tolerance, and hedge funds. His research has been published in the Journal of Investing, Journal of Applied Finance, Journal of Risk Finance, and Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance. Professor Holzhauer received a BS in business administration and biopsychology from Birmingham-Southern College, an MBA from Mississippi State University, and a PhD from the University of Alabama.
Tianqi Jiang is a PhD candidate in finance at the University of Rhode Island. Her research interests include the social network of sell-side analysts, corporate disclosure, venture capital, and corporate governance. She has presented papers at various conferences, including those of the American Accounting Association and European Financial Management Association. Ms. Jiang obtained a BS in finance from Donghua University, an MS in finance from Hofstra University, and an MS in economics from Florida Atlantic University.
Sofia Johan is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University. She is an Extramural Research Fellow at Tilburg University in The Netherlands. Professor Johan's research covers topics ranging from crowdfunding, securities regulation, stock exchange trading rules, mutual funds, hedge funds, venture capital, private equity, and sovereign wealth funds. She has published 51 articles in leading refereed academic journals in finance, management, and law and economics, such as the American Law and Economics Review, Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of International Business Studies. She is the co-author of Venture Capital and Private Equity
