KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Prof.Dr. FARAG, HISHAM

Prof. Dr. FARAG, Hisham is Professor of Finance at Birmingham Business School, and Director of Sustainable Financial Innovation Research Centre (SFiC) at the University of Birmingham. His current research areas are Sustainable Finance, FinTech, Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance, in which he published widely in internationally renowned journals e.g., British Journal of Management, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, European Financial Management, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, European Journal of Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, and Corporate Governance: An International review among others. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Birmingham, UK. Hisham is a qualified Non-Executive Director and a member of the Investments sub-committee at the University of Birmingham. He has extensive industry experience as a financial consultant and a successful track record in attracting research funding from reputable institutions. Hisham is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investments and serves as an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Finance, Review of Corporate Finance, International Review of Economics & Finance, International Journal of Finance & Economics, Research in International Business & Finance and Business Ethics: the Environment & Responsibility.

Assoc.Prof.Dr. HUSSAIN, NAZIM

Assoc. Prof. Dr. HUSSAIN, Nazim currently working as a tenured Associate Professor of Sustainability Accounting at the faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. My research interests include Corporate Sustainability Performance and Disclosure analysis, Financial Accounting, Corporate Governance, and Corporate Greenwashing.

Prof.Dr. TEO, CHUNG PIAW

Prof. Dr. TEO, Chung Piaw is Provost’s Chair Professor and Executive Director of the Institute of Operations Research and Analytics (IORA) in the National University of Singapore. Prior to the current appointments, he was Head of Department, Acting Deputy Dean, Vice-Dean of the Research & Ph.D. Program as well as Chair of the Ph.D. Committee in the NUS Business School. He was a fellow in the Singapore-MIT Alliance Program, an Eschbach Scholar in Northwestern University (US), Professor in Sungkyunkwan Graduate School of Business (Korea), and a Distinguished Visiting Professor in YuanZe University (Taiwan).