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I. Swiss Finance Institute Adjunct Professors
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Teodoro D. Cocca is full Professor for Wealth and Asset Management at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz in Austria and Swiss Finance Institute Adjunct Professor. Previously he worked for Citibank in investment und private banking, was a research fellow at the Stern School of Business in New York and senior researcher at the Swiss Banking Institute in Zurich. He is lecturer for banking and finance at the Universities of Zurich and Fribourg and Chairman of the Private Banking Summit. Professor Cocca is a frequent speaker to academics and investment professionals and a consultant to a number of financial institutions on issues relating to strategic bank management. He has published numerous articles in academic journals.
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Rudolf Gruenig is Professor for Business Administration at the University of Fribourg, Swiss Finance Institute Adjunct Professor and is lecturer of Strategic Management in various executive programs in Switzerland, Denmark and Vietnam. Apart from his academic career, Professor Gruenig is board member and strategy consultant in several Swiss companies. He has written numerous books and articles on strategic management, planning and decision-making (i.e. Rudolf Gruenig, Richard Kuehn - Process-based Strategic Planning, 5th edition, Berlin/Heidelberg 2008 and Rudolf Gruenig, Richard Kuehn - Sucessful Desicion-making, 2nd edition, Berlin/Heidelberg 2009).
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Erwin W. Heri is Professor of Financial Theory at the University of Basel and Swiss Finance Institute Adjunct Professor. At present, his activities in the academic field as well as in the field of investment consulting are: Chairman of “Valartis Bank AG” and for many years President of the investment commission of “Publica” the pension fund of government employees. In addition his is Chairman of a British family office. Formerly, he was an active board member of international renowned financial service providers e.g. Chief Financial Officer at “Winterthur Versicherungen” as well as CFO and Chief Investment Officer at “Credit Suisse Financial Services”. Erwin W. Heri also holds mandates at several advisory boards and is author of numerous books and articles.
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Roger M. Kunz is Professor at the University of Basle and Swiss Finance Institute Adjunct Professor. He is head of Asset Management at the Pension Fund of the SBB. He has been awarded his doctoral degree at the University of Basle in the department of Corporate Finance. After being at the Georgetown University in Washington DC as a research fellow he returned to the University of Basle for his habilitation. Thereafter, he has been working for several years at Credit Suisse as head of Financial Markets and at Clariden Leu as head of investment strategy.
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François-Serge Lhabitant is Chief Investment Officer of Kedge Capital and Swiss Finance Institute Adjunct Professor. François Lhabitant was previously a senior management member at Union Bancaire Privée (Geneva), where he headed the quantitative analysis and risk management of the Alternative Asset Management Group. Prior to that, he was a Director at UBS Global Asset Management in charge of quantitative modeling of hedge funds. On the academic side, he is a Professor of Finance at HEC University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and at the EDHEC Business School (France). Professor Lhabitant received a PhD in finance, an MSc in banking and finance and a BSc in economics from the University of Lausanne, as well as a computer engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
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Alfred Mettler is Professor of Finance at Georgia State University Atlanta and Swiss Finance Institute Adjunct Professor. He received his MBA and PhD in Finance from the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and has been on the faculty of the Swiss Banking Institute (University of Zurich/Switzerland), New York University (Stern School of Business), and Thunderbird (The Garvin School of International Management). His principal academic interests are in International Banking and Finance, Risk Management of Financial Institutions, and Financial Education. Professor Mettler’s research focuses on equity/debt financing of corporations, enterprise risk management applications, and the management of credit risk exposures. He has leading roles in several Executive Education Programs in Europe and the U.S. and has consulted for various companies and organizations.
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Conrad Meyer is Professor in Business Administration and director of the Institute for Accounting and Controlling at the University of Zurich and Swiss Finance Institute Adjunct Professor. His specialized areas in research and teaching are management accounting as well as selected problems of banking business management, such as management, accounting, controlling, asset- and liability management. He is President of the Commission of the Swiss Accounting and Reporting Recommendations (ARR) and President of the Panel of Experts for Reporting Requirements at the SWX Swiss Exchange. Prof. Meyer is a member of national and international scientific societies, and author of numerous publications and contributions to specialist journals. He plays an important role in teaching and as a consultant to both banking and industrial enterprises.
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II. Executive Education Lecturers
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Yacine Aït-Sahalia is the Otto Hack 1903 Professor of Finance and Economics and Director of the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University. He was previously Assistant Professor (1993-96), Associate Professor (1996-98) and Professor of Finance (1998) at the University of Chicago. He received the Emory Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching and was named an outstanding faculty by Business Week’s Guide to the Best Business Schools. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his research (1997 Brennan Award, 1998 Cornerstone Research Award, 2001 FAME Research Award, 2003 Aigner Award, among others), a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Statistical Association. He received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1993 and is a graduate of France’s Ecole Polytechnique.
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Giovanni Beliossi is Managing Partner at FGS Capital LLP, where he is the CEO. Previously he was Associate Director of hedge funds at First Quadrant Ltd., where he set up and was portfolio manager of its pan European long/short equity market neutral portfolios. Prior to this, he was a tenured Research Fellow at the economics department of the University of Bologna in Italy. He is an active member of AIMA (Alternative Investment Management Association) and a board and research committee member of Inquire UK. He is a board member of the International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE). He is the European chair of the Steering Group of the Investor Risk Committee (IRC) of IAFE. Mr. Beliossi is a CFA Chartholder.
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Ursin Bernard is lecturer for Human Resource Management and Organization at the University of Zurich and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. He holds a PhD from the Institute for Strategy and Business Economics of the University of Zurich. His empirical research studies have been published in various scientific and practical journals. He has consulted several international companies such as McKinsey & Company, PricewaterhouseCoopers and UBS on organizational and psychological topics. He is currently employed in the Corporate Development department of Credit Suisse.
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José Antonio Blanco is the Regional Chief Investment Officer, EMEA, at UBS, and is a member of the bank's European Management Committee. He is also a member of the bank's Global Wealth Management and Business Banking Investment Committee and heads the Swiss Investment Committee. In his role José Antonio Blanco supervises the investment and research activities for continental Europe, and he is part of the Global Investment Solutions business area, where he heads the Portfolio Engineering team. Prior to his present position Jose Antonio Blanco was the head of EMEA portfolio engineering and investment research. Jose Antonio Blanco has a PhD from the University of Zurich.
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Tim Bollerslev is Juanita and Clifton Kreps Distinguished Professor of Economics at Duke University and Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He is an elected Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics and a long time Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA. He is particularly well-known for his invention of the GARCH model. He is co-editor for the Journal of Applied Econometrics and has previously served on the editorial board for more than ten other academic journals. Professor Bollerslev received his MSc degree in economics and mathematics from the University of Aarhus, Denmark and his PhD degree in economics from the University of California, San Diego.
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Gregory Ciresi has a degree in physics, and a Masters in mathematical finance from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. He has worked as a programmer and quantitative analyst for several large equity and fixed income hedge funds. Currently, he is Senior Financial Engineer of Structured Portfolios in the Debt Capital Markets Group at Cantor Fitzgerald. Outside academia, he has delivered seminars on Financial Modeling in New York and London. At NYU, he teaches courses on CDOs and exotic option pricing. At Baruch College CUNY, his courses include fixed income risk management and statistical arbitrage.
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Michel Crouhy is head of research and development at NATIXIS. He has the bankwide oversight on all quantitative research and the development of new products and applications supporting the trading and structuring businesses. He is also responsible for implementing a bankwide risk-adjusted return on capital (RAROC) system. He is the founder and president of the NATIXIS Foundation for Quantitative Research, which promotes and support academic research and world-class events in the area of mathematical finance. Formerly, Dr. Crouhy was senior vice president, business analytic solutions, in the Risk Management Division, at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Prior to his career in the industry, Dr. Crouhy was a Professor of Finance at the HEC School of Management in Paris and has been a visiting Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Crouhy is the author and co-author of several books, the most recent ones being “Risk Management” (McGraw-Hill 2001), “The Essentials of Risk Management” (McGraw-Hill 2006). Dr. Crouhy holds a PhD from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and has a Doctoris Honoris Causa from the University of Montreal.
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Richard Comotto is teaching Fellow at the ICMA Centre at the University of Reading in England, responsible for the post-graduate module on short-term financial markets (FX, money markets and securities financing). Course director for the Professional Repo Market Course delivered jointly by ICMA, ACI and SIFMA in Europe and Asia, and for the new ICMA GMRA Workshop. Director of the ICMA semi-annual survey of the European repo market. Independent consultant providing research, support and training on the institutional money, securities and derivatives markets to a wide range of clients, including professional market associations, government agencies, regulatory authorities, banks, brokers and information services, both in the City of London and outside the UK. Professor Comotto has recently advised the World Bank on the reform of repo markets in Egypt and Nigeria. Special interests include securities financing, collateral management and electronic trading in OTC markets. Served for 10 years in the Bank of England (1979-89), including the Bank’s International and Foreign Exchange Divisions and on secondment to the UK Delegation to the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC (1987-89).
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Jean Dermine is Professor at the Center for International Financial Services at INSEAD, Fontainebleau. His research interests are in asset-liability management (ALM), Basel II, credit risk, and European banking integration. He is co-author of the ALCO Challenge banking simulation, which has been used on the five continents. His external activities include, for example, a membership at the advisory board of the European Capital Markets Institute, and the position as associate editor of the International Journal of Finance Education.
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Francis X. Diebold is Professor of Economics, Finance and Statistics at the University of Pennsylvania and its Wharton School, and Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a leader in financial and macroeconomic modeling, forecasting and risk management and has won several prizes for outstanding teaching. He has received widespread recognition for his work, including election to advisory and editorial boards of numerous leading journals, election to Fellow in the American Statistical Association and the Econometric Society, and Sloan, Guggenheim and Humboldt Fellowships. He advises numerous financial institutions in portfolio allocation and risk management contexts, and he is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Portfolio Management. Professor Diebold received his BSc from the Wharton School in 1981 and his PhD in 1986, also from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Paul Embrechts is professor of Mathematics at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) specialising in actuarial mathematics and mathematical finance. Previous academic positions include the Universities of Leuven, Limburg, and London (Imperial College). He has held visiting appointments at the University of Strasbourg, ESSEC Paris, the Scuola Normale in Pisa and the London School of Economics (Centennial Professor of Finance). His areas of spezialization include insurance risk theory, integrated risk management, the interplay between insurance and finance, and the modeling of rare events. Prof. Dr. Embrechts consults for a number of leading financial institutions and insurance companies and holds several board of director mandates.
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Enrico De Giorgi is Assistant Professor for Mathematics at the University of St. Gallen and Assistant Professor for Finance at the University of Lugano and Swiss Finance Institute. He holds a MS in Mathematics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and a PhD in Economics from the University of Zurich. He held research positions at RiskLab Switzerland, ETH Zurich, and at the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics of the University of Zurich. His research interests are behavioral finance and risk management. Currently, he is a member of the national Centre of Competence in Research "Financial Valuation and Risk Management".
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Silvia Gerber is Program Director at the Swiss Finance Institute. She holds a degree in Economics lic.oec.publ. with focus on Banking as well as a degree in teaching from the University of Zurich. In addition, she has a PhD from the University of York, Thesis topic: Bid-Ask Spread Analysis under Consideration of Market Liquidity and Information Asymmetry. Silvia Gerber’s professional experience is based on several years of employment in the international commodity trading business. She has undertaken teaching, research and consultancy assignments relating to corporate finance at various institutions of further education including the University of Applied Sciences of Central Switzerland at the Institut für Finanzdienstleistungen Zug IFZ.
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Thorsten Hens is SFI Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Zurich’s Swiss Banking Institute, a Fellow of the CEPR and adjunct Professor of Finance at the Norwegian Business School in Bergen. He is the director of the Swiss Banking Institute, the vice dean of the faculty of economics, business administration and the scientific coordinator of NCCR-Finrisk. Previously he held positions in Bielefeld, Paris and Stanford. His research areas are among others behavioral and evolutionary finance. In researching how investors make their decisions, Hens draws on work in psychology and applies insights from biology in order to understand the dynamics of financial markets.
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Martin Hoesli is Professor of Real Estate Finance at the University of Geneva (HEC) and the Swiss Finance Institute and Professor of Finance at the University of Aberdeen (Business School). He has been a visiting scholar at many US universities and has published in the leading real estate journals. His research interests lie primarily in real estate index construction, optimal portfolio allocation and valuation models. He has published four books, including “Property Investment: Principles and Practice of Portfolio Management”, Longman, 2000 (with B. MacGregor). He is on the editorial board of Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Property Research and Journal of Property Investment and Finance. In 2003-2004 he was President of the European Real Estate Society.
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Harry Hurzeler is COO and Director Executive Education of the Swiss Finance Institute and was Managing Director of the Swiss Banking School until its merger into the Swiss Finance Institute. Dr. Hurzeler spent 13 years at Credit Suisse, among other as Managing Director of CS Trust & Banking, Tokyo, as Managing Director and Country Manager Japan for CS First Boston, and as Head of CS's international IT. Dr. Hurzeler has a PhD in mathematics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and a Master in Business from the University of St. Gall, and taught at Ohio State University as a professor of mathematics.
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Martin C. Janssen has taught economics and finance at the University of Zurich, at the University of St. Gallen, at ETH Zurich, at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) and other institutions for more than 35 years, the last twenty years as a part time professor for financial economics. In 1985, Martin Janssen founded ECOFIN which has become a group of companies active as a strategic advisor to large institutional and private investors, as a provider for software solutions in asset and risk management and as a supplier of financial solutions. He published various books and articles in financial economics. He holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Zurich.
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Philippe Jorion is Chancellor’s Professor of Finance at the School of Business at the University of California at Irvine. He has also taught at UCLA, Berkeley, Columbia University, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and the University of British Columbia. He has published extensively in the area of global asset allocation, international finance and risk management. He has written a number of books, including “Value at Risk: The New Benchmark for Managing Financial Risk”, McGraw-Hill. He is also managing director at Pacific Alternative Asset Management Co.
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Robert Kosowski is an Assistant Professor at the Imperial College London, where he heads the Centre for Hedge Fund Research. Robert Kosowski's research interests include asset pricing and financial econometrics with a focus on the performance and risk of mutual funds, hedge funds, analyst recommendations and derivative trading strategies. Robert's research has been published in top peer-reviewed finance journals such as The Journal of Finance and The Journal of Financial Economics. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at INSEAD, and has worked for institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Boston Consulting Group. At Imperial Robert teaches in the MSc Risk Management and Financial Engineering and the MSc Actuarial Finance. Robert holds a BA and MA in Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge University, and a MSc in Economics and PhD from the London School of Economics.
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Prof. Dr. Georg von Krogh, Professor at ETH Zurich, director of the Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation and head of ETH Zurich's Department of Management, Technology, and Economics. He received his MSc from the Norwegian University of Technology and Natural Science, and a PhD from this University's Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management. He has been Assistant Professor of Business Policy at SDA Bocconi, Bocconi University in Italy, Associate Professor of Strategy at the Norwegian School of Management, and Professor of Management at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, and a Director of this University's Institute of Management. His specialized areas in research are competitive strategy, technological innovation, and knowledge management and he teaches courses on Entrepreneurial Leadership, Strategic Management, and Innovation Theory and Research.
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Alexander Ljungqvist is a research professor of finance at New York University Stern School of Business. Prior to joining NYU, Professor Ljungqvist taught at London Business School and Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. He has worked for Deutsche Bank, Berenberg Bank, Schroder, Munchmeyer, Hengst & Co., the Swedish Trade Council, and the Swedish Foreign Ministry. Between 1995 and 2000, he was a senior consultant with OXERA Ltd. His primary research areas include financial intermediation, investment banking, initial public offerings, entrepreneurial finance and venture capital, corporate governance, and behavioral corporate finance. He has published articles in these areas in all the leading scholarly journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics.
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Jens R. Maier is lecturer at the University of St. Gallen and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Leadership and Human Resource Management. He holds Master degrees in Industrial Engineering (Hamburg University) and Business Administration (University of Bradford). Warwick Business School awarded a PhD in Business Studies. He held academic appointments in Marketing and Strategy at Warwick Business School (Lecturer), University of Southern California (Visiting Scholar) and London Business School (Assistant Professor). Jens R. Maier held senior executive positions in global companies such as Daimler Benz Aerospace unit as Head of Management Development and as Head of Governmental Affairs in the Strategy Department. He was Head of Corporate Capability Development leading to the launch of the Zurich Development Center.
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Philip Marcovici, is CEO of LawInContext Pte. Ltd, the interactive knowledge venture of Baker & McKenzie. He retired as a partner of Baker & McKenzie at the end of 2009 after 28 years with the Firm. Based in Hong Kong and Zurich, he was one of the founders of the Firm’s Global Wealth Management practice, as well as of its Asian tax practice. Among other management roles, he was the chair of the Firm’s Global Private Banking Steering Committee and of its European Tax practice. He is active in working with families, governments and banks worldwide and has been an honorary lecturer at the law school of Hong Kong University and the University of Zurich law faculty. He is an active member of the tax sections of both the American and the Canadian Bar Association.
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Erwan Morellec is Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of Lausanne’s Ecole des HEC. Professor Morellec is Coordinator of the Swiss Finance Institute Doctoral Program. Professor Morellec has also taught at HEC Paris, the University of Rochester, ESA Beyrouth, and EDHEC Nice and has extensive experience teaching executive courses in the US and in Europe. He has been several times on the Teaching Honor Roll at the University of Rochester’s Simon School of Business for outstanding teaching performance. Professor Morellec has research interests in corporate finance and continuous time finance. His most recent research focuses on applications of option pricing theory to capital budgeting, financing decisions, and the pricing of corporate securities. His papers have been published in a variety of scholarly journals including the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Business. Professor Morellec has been engaged in a variety of management consulting activities. Before completing his dissertation, he has served as a consultant for Paribas Corporate Finance for the implementation of real options models and the valuation of international projects. He holds a PhD in Finance (Summa cum Laude) from HEC Paris.
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Olivier Scaillet is Professor at the University of Geneva (HEC) and the Swiss Finance Institute. He holds a PhD from the University of Paris IX Dauphine in applied mathematics. His research expertise is in asset pricing and econometrics applied to finance and insurance. He has published several papers in leading journals in econometrics and finance and co-authored a book on financial econometrics. He was one of the award winners of the best paper published in the Journal of Empirical Finance. He is also a longterm advisor for BNP Paribas.
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Stephen Schaefer is Professor of Finance at the London Business School. Formerly on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, he has also been a Visiting Professor at the universities of British Columbia, California (Berkeley), Cape Town, Chicago and Venice. He has published widely on fixed-income markets, risk management, credit risk and financial regulation. At the LBS he has been at various times Research Dean, Chairman of the finance area, Director of the Institute of Finance and Accounting and a member of the Governing Body. Outside academic life, Stephen Schaefer consults for a number of major financial institutions and is the co-author of a recent report on the performance of the Norwegian Oil Fund. He is a member of Moody’s Academic Research and Advisory Committee and a Non-Executive Director of Leo Fund Management. He was formerly an Independent Board Member of the Securities and Futures Authority and a Trustee-Director of Smith Breeden Mutual Funds.
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Thomas Schneeweis is Michael and Cheryl Philipp Professor of Finance at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts and Director of CISDM, a non-profit alternative investment research center at the University of Massachusetts. He is co-founder of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association and the founding and current editor of the Journal of Alternative Investments. Professionally he has been directly associated with the management of major hedge fund of funds and structured investment products. Currently he is President of Alternative Investment Analytics (commodity-based investment products), White Bear Partners (actively managed Managed Futures (CTA) and Hedge Fund (equity long short) investment products) and Schneeweis Capital Management (a family of hedge fund and mutual fund replication products).
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Andreas Staub is Director and Head of Channels and Services at Zürcher Kantonalbank. After studying economics at the University of Zurich, he started working as an analyst in ZKB's Economics and Risk Control unit in 1996. Since 1998, he has held various managerial roles in retail banking (branch management, controlling, marketing controlling and distribution development, CRM). He is currently responsible for multi-channel management, the bank-wide sales and distribution system, as well as business services such as the pricing engine. He assists the advisory board of the IFZ (Institute for Financial Services) in Zug as an examinations expert and lecturer in bank management, strategy, corporate governance, CRM and distribution. He is also a speaker at various conferences.
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Kevin D. Stringer is Visiting Professor at Thunderbird School of Global Management. He is lecturer for strategy in the IBR Global MBA at Steinbeis University Berlin. With extensive management and leadership experience at three major Swiss banks, he has expertise in financial institutions, banking operations, wealth management, and offshoring / outsourcing strategies for the financial services industry. His research interests are correspondent and transactional banking, offshoring / outsourcing, strategic banking operations, and microstates. He holds a PhD from the University of Zurich, an MA from Boston University, and a BSc from the US Military Academy at West Point.
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René Stulz is Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics and Director of the Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics at the Ohio State University. He is also chairman of the Swiss Finance Institute’s Scientific Council and President of the American Finance Association. He has taught at MIT, the University of Rochester and the University of Chicago. He was a Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School for the academic year 1996-97, is Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Neuchâtel and a Fellow of the Financial Management Association. He is a former President of the American Finance Association. Professor Stulz was editor of the Journal of Finance for twelve years and of the Journal of Financial Economics for five years. He is head of the committee which manages the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certification examination of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP), a trustee of the Association and a member of the executive committee. He is a member of the board of a US bank holding company, of a Swiss private bank, of a fund management company and of the risk advisory board of a fund of funds.
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Franco Taisch is Professor of Legal Management as well as of Financial Markets Law at the University of Lucerne since 2005. Adjunct Director Executive School of Management. LL.D. University of Zurich 1987 Zurich Bar 1989. Practising Law Institute New York 1992. Attorney at Law in Zurich, Geneva and New York 1989-1994. General Counsel Liechtensteinische Landesbank AG, Vaduz 1994-1998. Member Executive Board LLB (Schweiz) AG, Zurich 1997-1998. Group General Counsel and Member Executive Board Julius Baer Group, Zurich 1998-2007. Lecturer at the Universities of Zurich, St. Gallen and Lucerne 1993-2005. Adjunct Director Executive School of Management. Technology and Law at the University of St. Gallen since 2008. Managing Director taischconsulting, management and law, since 2007. Member Board of Directors of domestic and foreign companies since 1995, today e.g., Raiffeisen Group
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Since 1993, Luc Thévenoz has held the position of full professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Geneva, where he also heads the Centre for Banking and Finance Law. His teaching and research cover banking and financial transactions, regulation and supervision of financial markets and intermediaries, trusts, and contracts generally. He is the president of the Swiss Takeover Board, the regulatory agency for tender offers on listed companies. Previously, he has been a commissioner of the Swiss Federal Banking Commission and an arbitrator of the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland. He is the chief Swiss negotiator for the Unidroit Convention on Intermediated Securities.
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Alexander F. Wagner is Professor of Finance and Financial Markets at the University of Zurich. He holds a PhD from Harvard University, where he also taught in the Master's program. His previous degrees include a doctorate in economics and a law degree from the University of Linz, Austria. Research: corporate finance and corporate governance incl. executive compensation, as well as behavioral finance and environmental economics. Prof. Wagner has consulted several companies and governmental organizations on these and other topics. His research has appeared in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Journal of the European Economic Association, Economics Letters, and other international journals. He is a recipient of the ring of honor of the Republic of Austria, APART fellowship (Austrian Programme for Advanced Research and Technology), awarded to outstanding researchers under the age of 35.
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Heinz Zimmermann is professor of economics with focus on finance market theory at the University of Basle as well as professor of International Corporate Finance at WHU Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management, Vallendar, Germany and a founder member and lecturer at the Institute of Finance Market Analysis IFFA. Prof. Zimmermann's main areas of research include portfolio management, price formation in capital markets, control/securing of risks and current financial questions. He actively publishes and he is both a member of the board of directors and a founding member of various corporations in the field of Asset Management.
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Vincenzo Zinnà is Director at Credit Suisse since Sept. 2009. As Product Manager Derivatives he is responsible to activate the trading in Derivatives issued by Credit Suisse. Before he was Director and Member of the Senior Management at Swissquote, a Swiss bank, where he headed the Sales & Client Relations Group responsible for institutional clients. Vincenzo Zinnà has many years of experience as an active derivatives trader, as a sales manager for derivative products, and as a trainer of derivative products. Vincenzo Zinnà worked at the Swiss Options and Financial Futures Exchange SOFFEX where he was responsible for the selling of SOFFEX products as well as for the training of UBS employees in SOFFEX products, before becoming a market maker at SOFFEX. Subsequently he moved to Credit Suisse, where he first sold derivative trading strategies to institutional clients, and then, at Credit Suisse Financial Products, became responsible for the structuring, marketing and selling of the REVEXUS and TORO products. In 1999, he co-founded Finance@Work, a company providing financial training.
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