KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Professor BENJAMIN M. COLE

Professor of Strategy and Statistics

Fordham University, US

Benjamin M. Cole, Ph.D., is a Professor of Strategy & Statistics and holds the William J. Loschert Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business. Dr. Cole is published widely in the fields of technology and innovation, where he has examined the role that audiences play in increasing or decreasing the impact of technologies in the larger world. Dr. Cole’s research is published (or forthcoming) in several FT50 journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal and the Journal of Business Ethics. Dr. Cole serves on the Editorial Review Board of the Academy of Management Journal, the flagship empirical journal of the Academy of Management, where he has been recognized twice for Exemplary Performance as Best Reviewer (in 2020 and 2016).

Dr. Cole is a sought-after expert on blockchain/ cryptocurrencies. He has been featured in Fortune magazine (here and here) and Fast Company (here), and provided briefings to the likes of the Finance Minister of Luxembourg (H.E. Pierre Gramegna). In 2022, Dr. Cole was inducted as a Fellow of the British Blockchain Association and was invited to serve on the CNBC Disruptor 50 advisory council; he was named a “Top 40 Undergraduate Business Professor” by Poets & Quants in 2018 and a “Favorite Business Professor by the Class of 2022” in 2023. His recognition at the Gabelli School includes: the “Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research” (2023, 2020, 2015), the “Gladys and Henry Crown Award for Faculty Excellence” (2023, 2019, 2015), the “Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence” (2016, 2013, 2009), the “Dean’s Award for Impact” (2022 & 2018), the “Faculty Cura Personalis Award” (2022), the “DEI Achievement in Belonging: Faculty Curriculum & Teaching Award” (2021), and the “Stanley Fuchs Award” (2015).

Professor ARMAN ESRAGHI

Professor of Finance

Cardiff Business School, UK

Arman Eshraghi is a Professor of Finance and Chair of Finance and Investment at Cardiff Business School, UK. His academic research spans finance, accounting and psychology with interests including behavioural finance, financial technology and corporate governance. His work is published in some of the leading journals of the field, cited in the media including the Financial Times, Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Bloomberg, and contributed to handbooks published by Cambridge University, Wiley, Springer and Routledge. Professor Eshraghi is an Editor of International Review of Economics and Finance, Senior Editor of Finance Research Letters, Shimomura Fellow of the Development Bank of Japan, Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty at UCL, Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, Director of the Cardiff Fintech Research Group, and an Advisory Board Member of Fintech Wales.

Professor SABRI BOUBAKER

Professor of Finance

EM Normandie Business School, France

Sabri Boubaker a Professor of Finance at EM Normandie Business School (Paris, France) and the University of Swansea (Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom). Sabri holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Paris Est (2006) and an HDR degree (Habilitation for Supervising Doctoral Research) in 2010 from the same university. He is the Editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting and the recipient of "The Economic Research Foundation's Research Award 2022" from the "Centrum för Forskning om Ekonomiska Relationer, Sweden". He was/is visiting professor/researcher at Cass Business School (London, UK), University of Birmingham (Birmingham, UK), Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada), University of Cranfield (Bedford, UK), University of Portsmouth (Portsmouth, UK), University of Brunel (London, UK), University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy), University of Napoli Parthenope (Napoli, Italy), University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand), University of Tunis (Tunis, Tunisia) and the Vietnam National University (VNU-IS, Hanoi, Vietnam). Sabri Boubaker has recently published many academic papers (+100 papers) in international refereed journals including the Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Financial Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Auditing: A Journal of Theory & Practice, British Journal of Management, and Journal of Financial Research. Pr. Boubaker has also edited twelve books on corporate finance, corporate governance, board of directors, and corporate social responsibility (Emerald Group Publishing, Springer Verlag, World Scientific Publishing, Palgrave Macmillan, Elsevier, Hermes International Publishing, Edward Elgar). He is also the co-director of the book series Transformations in Banking, Finance, and Regulation. Pr. Boubaker serves on the editorial boards of many accounting and finance academic journals such as the British Journal of Management, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money (Subject Editor), International Review of Economics and Finance (Associate editor), and International Journal of Finance & Economics (Associate editor). He is the co-founder and co-chair of the annual Paris Financial Management Conference (2013–).

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