Keynote Speakers
- Professor Mingyi Hung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and USC Marshall School of Business. Mingyi Hung studies the role of accounting information in global markets. She received her Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Hung serves in several editorial boards including The Accounting Review and is a recipient of numerous research awards, including the Journal of Accounting & Economics Best Paper prize. She is also a recipient of the USC Marshall MBA Golden Apple Teaching Award and the Gamma Sigma Alpha Professor of the Year.
- Henk is Professor of Finance in the Department of Accounting and Finance at The University of Auckland Business School (UABS). He completed his PhD at Erasmus University Rotterdam and has held positions at Erasmus and Massey University, and the Universities of Kansas, Maastricht and Sydney. Henk has published in leading journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Accounting Research and the Journal of Finance.
- Shane S. Dikolli is an Associate Professor in Accounting at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Professor Dikolli teaches an MBA course in managerial accounting in the Full-Time and Weekend Executive Programs. His excellence in teaching has been recognised with achievement of a number of prestigious teaching awards. Professor Dikolli has a Bachelor of Business in Accounting and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business and Administration from Curtin University of Technology (Australia). He was awarded a Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Waterloo (Canada). Professor Dikolli’s primary research interests focus on the performance evaluation of CEOs and spans both analytical modeling and empirical analysis. Professor Dikolli is currently an Associate Editor at the Journal of Management Accounting Research and holds Editorial Board member positions at The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting and Finance.
- Professor Lynch received a Bachelor of Commerce with first class honors, an M.F.M, and a LL.B with honors from the University of Queensland. He received his Ph.D in Finance and Economics from the University of Chicago in 1994. He has been a finance professor at NYU's Stern School of Business since that time, receiving tenure and promotion to associate professor in 2001, and receiving promotion to full professor in 2012. He was appointed a research associate of the NBER in 2002. He has conducted research on a broad range of financial issues, but he has particular expertise in the areas of portfolio allocation, asset pricing and mutual funds. His research has been published in all the major academic finance journals including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Business, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Review of Financial Studies. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Review of Finance.