Keynote speakers

Renée ADAMS

Renee Adams is a Professor of Finance at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. She is a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute, a former Finance Department Editor at *Management Science*, and the former chair of AFFECT, the American Finance Association’s committee for women in Finance.

She is an expert on corporate governance, bank governance, and gender. Her work has a strong policy orientation and lies at the intersection of economics, finance, management, and psychology. Her publications have appeared in top accounting, economics, finance, and management journals, including the *Journal of Accounting and Economics*, the *Journal of Finance*, the *Journal of Financial Economics*, *Management Science*, the *Review of Economic Studies*, and the *Strategic Management Journal*.

Olivier SCAILLET

Olivier Scaillet is a Professor of Finance and Statistics at the Geneva Finance Research Institute of the University of Geneva and has a senior chair at the Swiss Finance Institute. He holds both a master is and Ph.D. from University of Paris IX Dauphine in applied mathematics.

Professor Scaillet is research expertise is in the area of derivatives pricing, econometric theory and econometrics applied to finance and insurance. He has published several papers in top journals in econometrics and finance, and co-authored a book on financial econometrics. He has been one of the winners of the bi-annual award for the best paper published in the Journal of Empirical Finance on the topic of quantitative risk management and of the Banque Privée Espirito Santo award prize on the topic of mutual fund performance.

He is an elected fellow of SoFiE, IAAE, and IMS, fellow of JoE, and elected member of ISI. He is an associate editor of several leading an academic journals in econometrics, statistics, banking and finance. He is an advisor for research teams in the finance and banking industry.