Managing Director, President and member of the board
Elvira Sojli is an Associate Professor and Scientia Fellow in the School of Banking and Finance, the University of New South Wales. Her current work tries to understand the role of and determinants of women’s participation in innovation. She is particularly interested in the international aspect of differences across countries and disciplines. Her previous work has focussed on international finance and market microstructure.
Vice President Conference
Marco Navone is an associate professor at UTS. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Professor in the Finance Department of Bocconi University in Milan (Italy). He has also been a research fellow of CAREFIN the Center for Applied Research in Finance of Bocconi University and has a visiting Assistant Professor in the Finance Department of Red McCombs School of Business of the University of Texas at Austin. Marco received his Ph.D. from Bocconi University, his teaching experience ranges from advanced equity portfolio management to financial economics and he has also a broad experience in executive education.
Vice President FIRN Women
Dr Jing Yu is an Associate Professor in Finance. Prior to joining the University of Sydney, she held faculty positions at University of Western Australia. Jing has a PhD degree in Finance from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Jing has strong research interests in areas of international finance, corporate finance, green finance and corporate sustainability.
Vice President ECR
Angel Zhong is an award winning finance academic who specialises in empirical asset pricing, digital finance, global financial markets, investor behaviour and the recent trends in retail investing. She is an editorial board member of three prestigious field journals (Journal of Accounting LIterature, Finance Research Letters and Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money).
Vice President Education
Xiaoyang Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at Deakin Business School. Prior to joining Deakin, he was an Associate Professor of Finance at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2011. He has published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of Corporate Finance, among others. His broad teaching and research interests cover topics in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and innovation.
Company Secretary
Professor Ellie Chapple</strong> holds the position of Professor of Accounting at QUT Business School, where she is the research leader in Forensic Accounting and the chief investigator in the research program Accounting For Social Change. Ellie is a member of AFAANZ, member of the Corporate Law Teachers Association and Legal practitioner admitted to the Supreme Court of Queensland.
Treasurer
FIRN Board Members:
Board Chair
Joakim Westerholm is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Sydney. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of Asset Pricing: with focus on security market microstructure and behavioral finance topics; Corporate Finance: with focus on CEO and corporate insider trading strategies and acquisition decisions. Joakim has a PhD in Finance from the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration (Hanken), in Helsinki, Finland. He has 9 years industry experience in broking, dealing and funds management.
Director
Philip Gharghori is an Associate Professor of Finance at Monash University. Prior to joining Monash full time, he was a PhD student and tutor at Monash. His teaching has spanned all levels from undergraduate to PhD and has covered a wide range of fields including asset pricing, corporate finance, fixed income and investments. His areas of research are asset pricing and investments. He is Deputy Editor in Chief at Accounting and Finance, and he holds additional editorial roles at Australian Journal of Management and Pacific-Basin Finance
Director
Robert Durand is a Professor of Finance at Curtin University. Robert’s work focuses on empirical work investigating asset pricing models and behavioural finance. Robert holds a BA (Hons.) from the University of Sydney, an MBA from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD from Murdoch University
Director
Xiaoyang Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at Deakin Business School. Prior to joining Deakin, he was an Associate Professor of Finance at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2011. He has published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of Corporate Finance, among others. His broad teaching and research interests cover topics in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and innovation.