Professor Fariborz Moshirian is the Director of the Institute of Global Finance (IGF) in the UNSW Australia Business School​, Sydney. The IGF does collaborative research on Systemic risk, financial innovation and global financial stability with NYU, UCLA and has had joint work with the Asian Development Bank, the IMF, the World Bank, PwC and a number of world class research centres. Fariborz was the Bertil Danielsson Professor of Finance for 2006 (the Stockholm School of Economics and Nordea Bank). He is a consultant to the Asian Development Bank. He served as the Head of School of Banking and Finance at UNSW for over four years. Fariborz has published a number of influential research works on global financial stability, interconnectedness, governance, systemic risk and the financial and social challenges of the 21st century in leading international finance journals including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Journal of Banking and Finance. Fariborz’s joint work with the World Bank on Globalization and Financial Services in Emerging Countries was published in 2007. His work with the IMF and the World Bank on Global Financial Crisis, Risk Analysis and Risk Management was published in 2009. His joint work with Institutions such as the Bank for International Settlements ”Systemic Risk, Basel III, Governance and Financial Stability” was published in 2012. His latest work on Systemic Risk: Liquidity Risk, Governance and Global Financial Stability with Institutions such as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Bank of England and the Reserve Bank of Australia is published in 2014. Supervisor Homepage

Dr. Thomas H. McInish is an author or coauthor of more than one hundred scholarly articles in leading journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Portfolio Management, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Sloan Management Review. Cited as one of the “Most Prolific Authors in 72 Finance Journals;” Ranked 20 (tie) out of 17,573 individuals publishing in these journals from 1953 to 2002. Another study ranked Dr. McInish as 58 out of 4,990 academics in number of articles published during 1990-2002. Dr. McInish’s co-authored, path-breaking article on intraday stock market patterns originally published in the Journal of Finance was selected for inclusion in (1) Microstructure: The Organization of Trading and Short Term Price Behavior, which is part of the series edited by Richard Roll of UCLA entitled The International Library of Critical Writings in Financial Economics. (This series is a collection of the most important research in financial economics and serves as a primary research reference for faculty and graduate students) and (2) Continuous-Time Methods and Market Microstructure, which is part of the International Library of Financial Econometrics edited by Andrew W. Lo of MIT. His book, Corporate Spin-Offs, was selected by Choice, a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, for inclusion on its list of “Outstanding Academic Books 1984.” Blackwell Publishers published his book Capital Markets: A Global Perspective in 2000 in English and Chinese. Dr. McInish earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. McInish is a Chartered Financial Analyst (C.F.A.), a highly respected professional designation. Dr. McInish currently holds the Wunderlich Chair of Excellence in Finance at The University of Memphis.

Professor Lepone completed his Ph.D. at the University of Sydney in 2007. He is actively involved in research in the areas of equity and futures market microstructure, particularly related to the areas of market design and market quality. In particular, he has examined how particular market designs affect market quality, with a significant focus on High Frequency Trading. He has published numerous articles in leading internationally refereed journals, including the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Markets and the Journal of Empirical Finance. Supervisor Homepage

Petko S. Kalev is a Professor in Finance and the Director of the Centre for Applied Financial Studies (CAFS) — School of Commerce, at the University of South Australia Business School. Professor Kalev holds a PhD in Financial Econometrics from Monash University, a Master of Science in Statistics from the University of Melbourne and, a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics from the University of Plovdiv. Prior to joining the University of South Australia in February 2010, Professor Kalev worked at the Department of Accounting and Finance, Monash University (1999–2010). Professor Kalev has several research interests ranging from Asset Pricing, Capital Markets & Market Microstructure, Market Efficiency, Corporate Finance, Assets Management, Quantitative Finance and Behavioural Finance. Professor Kalev is most known and recognised for his empirical research contributions to the field of Market Microstructure: Asymmetric Information and Informed Trading, Market Quality, Price Discovery and Volatility Modelling. Professor Petko Kalev is the founder and Director of CAFS, at the School of Commerce (October 2010). On his initiative, UniSA became the first participating member, located outside of New South Wales of the $100 million Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CM CRC). Professor Kalev has strong links with the finance industry — he is a past Committee member of both Q-group Australia and Q-group Melbourne chapter. Currently he is a member of the SIRCA research committee. Professor Kalev is also the founder and executive chair of an annual research conference on Behavioral Finance and Capital Markets (2011 – present). Petko has an outstanding scholarship and professional leadership track record at the tertiary level for an Australian academic. More specifically, he has been playing an exceptional leadership role in teaching research subjects (units) with a research component at the tertiary level; in supervising and mentoring research students (Honours and PhD students); in performing research in interdisciplinary areas (eg Finance, Financial Economics and/or Financial Econometrics); in publishing in highly ranked and reputable international A* journals and in creating partnerships between the academia the finance industry. Petko is joint winner with Sugato Chakravarty and Linh Pham of the Barclays Global Investors Research Award, of for the best paper on Capital Markets/Funds Management with a focus on the Australasian markets (Australasian Finance and Banking Conference – Sydney, December 2004). He also holds the best paper award at the FMA European meeting in Turin 2009 – a joined paper with his ex-PhD student Huu N. Duong. Petko disseminates knowledge and research in the discipline of Finance by presenting invited lectures, workshops, seminars and research papers at leading national and international institutions, and networking with leading Departments and scholars, thus enhancing the reputation of the University I represent. Over the last four years, Petko has presented more than 40 seminars and other research papers at leading institutions, such as the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System – Division of International Finance, Washington DC, Cambridge University (Judge Business School), Erasmus University, University of Bonn (3 seminars), University of Mannheim (3 seminars), University of Calgary (Haskayne School of Business), Georgetown University (McDonough School of Business), University of Hawaii, (Shidler College of Business), Massey University, Bond University, New Bulgarian University, University of Sinos (Sao Leopoldo), Federal University (Porto Alegre), UNWE (Sofia), Catholic University of Mons, ANU, UNSW (3 seminars), UWA (2 seminars), The University of Melbourne (2 seminars), The University of Sydney (3 seminars), University of Queensland (2 seminars), RMIT, UTS (3 seminars), Macquarie University, Monash University (7 seminars), and others; or to practitioners’ organisations (affiliations) such as CSIRO and the Q-Group of Australia (Goldman Sachs JBWere). Supervisor Homepage