Jane Hall is the Director of Strategy for the Centre and Professor of Health Economics in the UTS Business School. She was the founding Director of CHERE and held that position until 2012. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. In 2012 she was recognized with a UTS Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence in Research Leadership. In 2011 she was awarded the inaugural Professional Award made by the Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand, for her outstanding contributions to research, developing the field and mentoring others. She is currently leading the APHCRI funded Centre of Research Excellence in the finance and economics of primary care. She is actively involved in policy analysis and critique, and is a regular commentator on health funding and organisational issues in Australia. Jane has represented Australia in many international health policy forums. Jane is a member of the Board of the Bureau of Health Information; and a member of the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority. She is the Australian representative of the Harkness Fellowship in Health Policy and Practice; and Director of the Australian-American Health Policy Program. She is an Associate Editor of Health Economics, and of Health Policy. Supervisor homepage

Professor Jerry Parwada is the Head of Banking and Finance in the UNSW Business School at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Jerry’s doctorate from Edith Cowan University is on the behaviour of asset flows in the investment management industry. His research specialises in funds management and financial markets and has been published in internationally renowned finance journals, including Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and Financial Management. He has prior investment banking experience and is an active consultant to industry on issues relating to managed funds and valuation. He sits on the Finsia Institutional Markets Advisory Council and has served, since 2012, on the Credit Suisse Endowment Advisory Council. He is a regular speaker at local and international finance conferences. He was educated at St Ignatius College (Zimbabwe) and holds a BCom (Hons) From NUST (Zimbabwe), an MPhil from UNSW Australia, and MBA and PhD degrees from Edith Cowan University. Supervisor Homepage

Terry Walter is Professor of Finance in the of Discipline of Finance, The University of Sydney Business School and Chief Research Officer and Director of Equities Research at Sirca. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of empirical tests of finance theory as it relates to the behaviour of capital markets, market microstructure, executive compensation, takeovers and mergers and initial public offers, anomalies in empirical capital market evidence, behavioural finance, and the performance and fees structures of mutual funds. His research has been supported with several ARC Discovery Grants, Linkage Grants, Infrastructure Grants and a Cooperative Research Centre Grant. He previously has held professorial appointments at the University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales, the University of Western Australia, Macquarie University and the University of Technology, Sydney. Supervisor Homepage

Professor in Finance and Entrepreneurship • Ontario Research Chair in Economics and Cross Cultural Studies B.Com. (McGill); M.A. (Queen’s); J.D. (UofT); Ph.D (UofT); CFA My research areas span topics that include law and finance, public policy, entrepreneurial finance, venture capital, private equity, IPOs, hedge funds, and exchange regulation and surveillance. I study applied topics and make use of a wide range of empirical methods. My work often involves assessment of regulatory and other policy initiatives towards stimulating market activity. Supervisor Homepage