Short BIO of the Keynote Speakers

Vasso Ioannidou is Professor of Finance at Bayes Business School and Research Fellow in Financial Economics at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Her research focuses on banking and corporate finance, with particular emphasis on bank behaviour, performance, and prudential regulation. Her work has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and Management Science, and has been featured in prominent media outlets such as the Financial Times and The Economist. She has received several awards and distinctions in recognition of her scholarly contributions. Vasso is actively involved in shaping academic discourse and policy debates related to banking and f inance. She currently serves as a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), a Senior Research Consultant at the European Central Bank (ECB), and as Associate Editor for the European Economic Review, the Journal of Banking and Finance and the Journal of Financial Stability. Before joining Bayes in 2021, she held professorial positions at Lancaster University Management School (2013-2020) and at Tilburg University (2010-2013). Vasso earned her PhD in Economics from Boston College.

Loriana Pelizzon is Deputy Scientific Director, Department Director of “Financial Markets” and Coordinator of Gender Equality at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE as well as Full Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt, Chair of Law and Finance. She is also part-time Full Professor of Economics at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan and WFA CFAR Affiliate, Olin Business School, Washington University, St. Louis, US. She graduated from the London Business School with a doctorate in Finance. Her research interests are on risk measurement and management, hedge funds, market microstructure, financial institutions, systemic risk, sovereign risk and financial crisis. She was one of the coordinators of the European Finance Association (EFA) Doctoral Tutorial, member of the EFA Executive Committee and member of the BSI GAMMA Foundation Board. She has been involved in NBER and FDIC projects as well as EU projects (Marie Curie, FP7 and H2020), Europlace and Inquire Europe, EIEF, Bank of France projects, MIUR, DFG, and VolkswagenStiftung: Europe and Global Challenges. She was a member of the EIOPA’s Insurance and Reinsurance Stakeholder Group and is currently Co-Vice President of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board, research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and member of the EU independent expert advice team in the field of Banking Union and external expert for the EU Commission on digital currency and blockchain technology. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Banking and Finance.