Talis Putnins is a Professor in the Finance Discipline Group at UTS and a member of the Quantitative Finance Research Centre. He has also held positions at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies, and has been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and New York University. His main research interests include financial markets, market microstructure, market manipulation, insider trading and shadow economies. His research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Review of Finance, and Experimental Economics. Talis is the recipient of a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Talis has done consulting and policy work for governments, stock exchanges, and financial institutions and served as an expert witness in legal cases. Talis has a PhD from the University of Sydney. Supervisor Homepage

Dr Aitken is Professor of ICT Strategy at Macquarie University. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of the CMCRC and its Chief Scientist. A top-ranking academic, experienced industry practitioner and expert witness, he has overseen the development of fraud detection technologies not only for securities markets, but also accounting and audit markets, and in health insurance and general insurance. He has applied these technologies to assist Courts, regulators and market participants in allegations of insider trading, market manipulation and breaches of disclosure, establishing new standards in the process. Since 1998, Dr Aitken has acted as an expert in a great range of matters involving insider trading, market manipulation, the impact of information, front-running and broker-client conflict in Australia, the UK, Singapore, Hong Kong and has provided expert reports on issues of market microstructure, market efficiency and market integrity to regulators, exchanges, brokers, intermediaries and other institutions concerned with financial markets.

List of Cases and assignments

Peter Ness (market manipulation, 1998) Kenneth John Firns (insider trading, 1999) Simon Hannes (insider trading, 2001; involving allegations that the defendant traded in derivatives prior to a market announcement of sensitive information) Nomura Securities (market manipulation, 2001; involving allegations of manipulation of the price of a market index in 1996) Rodney Stephen Adler (market manipulation, 2002) Richard James Frawley (insider trading, 2004) LSE and Plus Markets (competition issues, settled out of court, 2007, United Kingdom) ASIC, A Study of Abnormal Price Movements on the ASX for determining the positioning of Circuit Breakers., (2010) David Kenneth Michaels (insider trading, 2011) Rick Klusman (market manipulation and front-running, 2011) Brian Henry (market manipulation (“wash trades”), New Zealand, 2014) Daniel Joffe (insider trading (“CFDs”), 2014) Nathan Stromer (insider trading (“CFDs”), 2014) Foresight Committee: Future of Computer in Financial Markets, High Frequency Trading – Assessing the Impact on Market Efficiency and Market Integrity, United Kingdom, March 2012. Capital Markets Authority of Kuwait, Seminar on Market Surveillance (2012, Kuwait) FMA v Mark Warminger (2016, New Zealand)

Dr. Harris is the John B. McKinnon Professor of Managerial Economics and Finance at Wake Forest and a Professorial Visiting Fellow at the School of Banking and Finance, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales. His research focuses on the application of capacity-constrained pricing models to pricing tactics, security market design, and financial market price discovery. Dr. Harris has also served as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the Babcock School and as an Area Coordinator. His research has been published in the leading journals in finance, economics, and operations including the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Markets, Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Operations Management, and has served on the Board of Associate Editors of the Journal of Industrial Economics. He is the co-author of Managerial Economics: Applications, Strategy, and Tactics, now in its 11th edition. Twice honoured with the Babcock Educator of the Year award, he has been listed among Outstanding Faculty by Inc. magazine and by Business Week’s Guide to the Best Business Schools. Dr Harris advises security market designers and benchmarks the pricing, order-processing, and capacity-planning functions of large companies against state-of-the-art techniques in revenue management. His findings have appeared in such management practice journals as the Journal of Trading, the Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, International Journal of Revenue Management, and Marketing Management. His research collaborations, consulting and executive training have included work with numerous services, manufacturers, investment banks and other financial services companies in the United States, Australia and Europe with special attention to pricing strategy and tactics against low-cost discounters, stock trading execution strategies, and security market design.

• John B. McKinnon Professor of Managerial Economics & Finance Wake Forest University North Carolina

Nicholas Graves is Professor of Health Economics with a joint appointment in the Institute of Biomedical and Health Innovation, School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology and the Centre for Healthcare Related Infection Control and Surveillance, Queensland Health, Australia. Research interests Applied economics work on:

• nosocomial infection/healthcare-acquired-infection
• screening for chronic and infectious disease
• mental health and workplace productivity
• changing health behaviour among high risk groups
• the supply of blood products
• complementary and alternative medicine
• randomness and funding
• the economics of bureaucracy

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