Raghavendra Rau, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School; past president of the European Finance Association; Head of the School's Finance & Accounting subject group; Director (Research) of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF); and a member of the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network (CCGN).

Jonathan Crook is a Professor of Business Economics and Director of Research at the University of Edinburgh Business School. He is Joint Editor of the Operational Research Society. Studied Economics at Lancaster and Cardiff. Has been a Visiting Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Scholar, McIntyre School of Commerce, University of Virginia, USA, a Visiting Fellow, University of Warwick, UK and a Visiting Fellow, European University Institute, Florence. He is a Fellow of Financial Institutions Center, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, an External Research Fellow of the Centre for Finance, Credit and Macroeconomics at the University of Nottingham and has been Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Matteo Aquilina