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FLORENCIO LOPEZ DE SILANES MOLINA

Professor of Finance at SKEMA Business School, France
Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University, USA, 1994
Florencio Lopez de Silanes is currently Professor of Finance and Dean of Academic Strategy at SKEMA Business School in France. He has an MA and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. His research interests and main publications are in corporate governance, investor protection, financial regulation, and the development of capital markets and financial intermediaries. His ground-braking research has shown the relevance of corporate governance for the development of financial markets as investor protection lowers financing costs for firms. He has been an advisor to international institutions, regulators and firms mostly in the areas of corporate governance and financial reform. He has been an advisor on these subjects to several governments, international institutions and corporations. He has published in top finance and economics journals and has two books, one on Corporate Governance and another on the Benefits of Privatization. He was named one of the 100 Globa Leaders for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 2003 and was given the Legion of Honor for his academic contribution from the President of France. Among other distinctions, he received Harvard's Wells Prize for the Best Dissertation in Economics, the Brattle Prize for distinguished paper in the Journal of Finance of the American Finance Association, and the Jensen Prize for the best papers published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the Areas of Corporate Finance and Organizations. According to SSRN,, his lifetime academic citations place him as one of the top five world’s most cited business and economics authors. Before arriving to SKEMA, he was a professor at the universities of Harvard, Yale,  Amsterdam, EDHEC and the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris.
 

GIOVANNA LO NIGRO

Full Professor at University of Palermo, Italy
Ph.D. in Production engineering at University of Palermo, Italy, 1997

She is a Full Professor of Business and Management Engineering at the University of Palermo, Italy, where she has been teaching and conducting research since 1999. Her expertise lies in behavioral operations, sustainability, and production economics, with significant contributions to both academic research and industry practices. She is the Coordinator of the international PhD program in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Management, and Aerospace Innovation and serves on the scientific board of the Centre for Sustainability and Ecological Transition. Prof. Lo Nigro has authored numerous publications in high-impact journals, exploring themes such as sustainable delivery systems, supply chain finance, and the sharing economy. She is also actively involved in international collaborations and editorial roles in prominent academic journals.

 

KAYLA SCHWOERER

Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Policy at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York, USA
Ph.D. in Public Administration at  School of Public Affairs and Administration Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA, 2022

Her research focuses on understanding and improving the ways that public and nonprofit organizations use data, design, and digital technologies to solve problems, deliver programs and services, and engage diverse communities. Before joining UAlbany in Fall 2023, she was an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where she continues to hold an affiliation with the Artificial Intelligence and Digital Governance (AIDG) Lab. She is also a Fellow at UAlbany’s Center for Technology and Government (CTG) and a faculty affiliate of the AI Plus Institute, an interdisciplinary research institute for cutting-edge AI research housed at UAlbany. Her research has received several awards including funding from the Minerva Center for High Impact Learning (2024), the American Political Science Association’s Paul A. Volcker Junior Scholar Research Grant (2024), and the American Society for Public Administration’s Section for Women in Public Administration’s Best Dissertation Award (2023). She serves on several editorial boards of notable journals in the field, including as an Associate Editor for Information Polity. 

 

MIGUEL IGNACIO CÓRDOVA ESPINOZA

Professor and Researcher at Tecnologico de Monterey, Mexico
Ph.D. in Strategic Management at Consorcio de Universidades, Peru, 2020
Miguel Cordova is Professor and Researcher at the Department of Management and Leadership, Business School, at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. He holds a PhD in Strategic Management and Sustainability. His research interests are Power and Influence, Sustainable Development, Strategic Management, Global Supply Chains, Corporate Governance, Blue Economy, New Space Economy, and International Business. He serves as Chair at the Teaching & Education SIG of the Academy of International Business (AIB) and as Associate Editor at the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education (Emerald Publishing). He is also a member of the Expert Council for Economic Democracy of the European Union. He was visiting professor at Inseec Business School in Paris, Universidad del Desarrollo and Universidad de Chile in Santiago de Chile, ESADE in Barcelona, UDEM in Monterrey, and Mount Royal University in Calgary.
 
 
XIN YE

Assistant Professor at  Fudan University, China
Ph.D. in Social Medicine and Healthcare Management at Peking University, China, 2022

Dr. Xin Ye is an assistant professor from Institute for Global Public Policy, Fudan University. She got her BA in Law from Renmin University of China, Master of Social Work from Peking University, and her Ph.D. degree in Social Medicine and Health Service Management from Peking University. Her research interests are health policy evaluation, health inequalities across the life span, health services research and health economic evaluation. Her work has been published in high-quality academic journals, such as JAMA Network Open, Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific, BMC Medicine, Current Environmental Health Reports, Journal of Global Health, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, American Journal of Epidemiology, Health Policy and Planning, and Population & Development. She has led two projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China, the Key Laboratory of Health Technology Assessment of the National Health Commission. She has participated in projects supported by the National Social Science Fund of China, the National Natural Science Foundation, the China Medical Board Open Competition (CMB-OC2), Beijing Natural Science Foundation, etc. She works as an anonymous reviewer of journals such as Public Management Review, Finance Research Letters, BMJ Global Health, International Journal for Equity in Health, Health and Place. 

 
 

 

 

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