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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND PARTICIPANTS OVERVIEW OF THE 14TH FRAP CONFERENCE - OXFORD http://www.acrn.eu ACRN Oxford Ltd. Academic Research Network Oxford Centre 1 King's Meadow, Osney Mead Oxford OX2 0DP Keynote Speakers Dr Julia Mundy Centre for Governance, Risk & Accountability, University of Greenwich Opening Keynote The value of qualitative research in Finance, Risk and Accounting Monday 22nd, 10.30 – 12.00 Biography Dr Julia Mundy is a founding member of the Centre for Governance, Risk and Accountability at the University of Greenwich. Following 10 years’ experience in the investment management and financial services sectors, she undertook her PhD at the University of Melbourne in the area of management control systems and organisational learning before joining the University of Greenwich in 2003. Her research interests include the use of control systems in inter-firm collaborations and corporate social responsibility, subjectivity in performance measurement, and the role of uncertainty in control systems. She has been awarded various competitive bids and has published in top international journals, including Accounting Organizations and Society, Management Accounting Research, and the Journal of Management Accounting Research. Dr Mundy is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Accounting Research, an internationally ranked academic publication, and has been the Honorary Secretary of the Management Control Association since 2007. She is a committee member of the Research Advisory Board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). She is a qualified Chartered Secretary, a regular contributor to the main practitioner publication in that field, and she has provided expert advice to firms in sectors including financial services, publishing, and social housing. Keynote Speakers Dr Olga Kolokolova University of Manchester, Manchester Business School Keynote Presenting her research on Hedge-funds Tuesday 23rd, 9.00 – 10.30 Biography Olga Kolokolova graduated from the Russian Plekhanov Academy of Economics with a master’s degree in Mathematical Methods in Economics, and thereafter obtained a “Candidate of Science” degree for her research on credit risk management. She obtained a Ph.D degree in Quantitative Methods in Economics and Finance from the University of Konstanz (Germany) with her dissertation being primarily focused on the analysis of hedge funds. She was a visiting researcher at the Imperial College Business School (London) before joining Manchester Business School in October 2010. She published in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, and Journal of Banking and Finance. Keynote Speakers Dr Merav Ozair NYU Keynote A New (proposed) Methodology for Dissecting Markets Behavior Tuesday 23rd, 9.00 – 10.30 Biography Dr. Ozair has over 12 years’ teaching experience and currently she has been teaching at the Finance and Risk Engineering (FRE) program at NYU – Market Microstructure, Financial Econometrics and Portfolio Management. She earned her PhD in Accounting and Finance from Stern Business School at NYU, and her research interests include market microstructure, volatility modeling and financial econometrics. She is also the founder of Mackabie Capital a financial service provider which bridges fundamental and quantitative methods to enable money managers in their pursuit for better alpha generating strategies, risk control and execution. She also holds a CPA and a CQF. Keynote Speakers Dr John Hoffmire Director of Impact Bond Fund, SAID Business School, University of Oxford Keynote Talking about investment decisions of the Said Impact Bond fund Wednesday 24th, 9.00 – 10.30 Biography John’s background involves a twenty-year career in impact investing, venture capital, consulting and investment banking. His work has had a particular focus on Employee Stock Ownership Plans and their use to make impact investing even more impactful. John left American Capital as Senior Investment Officer when the company reached $1 billion in assets. After leaving American Capital, John was Vice President at Ampersand Ventures, formerly Paine Webber's private equity group. Earlier in his career, after he finished his Ph.D. at Stanford University, he was a consultant at Bain & Company. John created the first known Employee Stock Ownership Plan for a microfinance institution when he helped the employees of K-REP buy part of their bank. He teaches at Saïd Business School where he also directs the Impact Bond Fund, a $5,000,000 fund that allows students to learn through doing. He also directs the Center on Business and Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He serves on the board of directors of two companies in the media and finance industries. John has worked, researched and given speeches in 90 countries. He was awarded the Darwin Nelson Community Impact Award for his efforts to help business work for more people. Keynote Speakers Prof. Alex Nicholls SAID Business School, University of Oxford Keynote Leading the Panel Discussion on Social and Sustainable Finance Wednesday 24th, 9.00 – 10.30 Biography Alex Nicholls is Professor in Social Entrepreneurship, within the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. His research interests range across several key areas within social entrepreneurship and social innovation, including the nexus of relationships between accounting, accountability and governance; public and social policy contexts; social finance, impact investing; and Fair Trade. As the first staff member of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University in 2004, Nicholls has helped the Centre develop a global profile in researching and teaching social entrepreneurship and social finance. His vast research canon is published in highest ranked journals and he has certainly shaped the field. He is editor amongst of the Oxford University Press Handbook of Social Finance, and of the Routledge Journal of Social Entrepreneurship. Keynote Speakers Prof. Richard Harrison University of Edinburgh Business School Keynote Building companies, developing markets, exploiting technologies: the role of innovation-based entrepreneurship in economic development Wednesday 24th, 13.30 – 14.45 Biography Professor Richard Harrison is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Co-Director of the Centre for Strategic Leadership at the University of Edinburgh Business School. He was previously Dean of Queen’s University Management School and Director of the Leadership Institute. Previously he was Dixons Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Edinburgh and has also held Chair level appointments at the University of Aberdeen and University of Ulster. He has also taught in China, Argentina, Australia, the US and Canada. Richard is a world-leading authority on business angel and early stage venture finance and has advised governments, development agencies and business groups internationally on risk capital and venture finance issues. He has lectured, advised and consulted on the development of the business angel and early stage risk capital market in the UK (for UK Business Angels Association, HM Treasury, LINC Scotland, Department of Business Innovation and Skills, Scottish Enterprise, NE Access to Finance – his work led to the introduction of the first business angel networks in England in the late 1980s, and later to the first investment readiness programmes, and he wrote the first handbook on how to set up and operate a business angel network) and internationally (for OECD, EU, Six Countries InterGovernmental Programme, Department of Industry Canada, and in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Austria and China). He is a regular speaker at business angel conferences, including those organised by EBAN, Business Angels Europe, UKBAA, Angel Capital Alliance (US) and Asia Business Angel Association. He is co-editor of the research journal Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, the leading publisher of academic research on risk capital. His research has been funded by ESRC, British Academy, EU, Bank of England, Canadian High Commission, Department of Business Innovation and Skills, Scottish Enterprise among others. He is author of four books and over 100 academic articles on business angel networks, venture capital, regional economic development and entrepreneurial learning, with two more (on angel finance and public policy and on entrepreneurship and leadership) in preparation. Participants Overview Participant Name Ahmed Marhfor Affiliation UQAT Canada Main Session No. 7.1. Research Interests analyst coverage, stock price informativeness, Corporate social responsibility, Financing constraints Short Biography I was born and raised in Casablanca, Morocco. I immigrated to Canada when I was 18 years old to continue my studies (I am a big fan of cold weather). When I was younger I wanted to become a professor. Fortunately, I fulfilled this dream 10 years ago. In the last 10 years, I have been working as a lecturer at the University of Québec in Montréal and a professor of finance at the University of Québec in Abitibi. I have two younger sisters who still live in Morocco. E-Mail [email protected] I am looking for Contact with Experts in Quantitative Methods, Collaboration in Writing Papers, Publication Opportunities Participants Overview Participant Name Ron Christner Affiliation Loyola University, New Orleans USA Main Session No. 1.3. Research Interests Short Biography Associate Professor