Kose John & Thorsten Beck were the recipients of the FEBS Distinguished Scholar Award for 2024 for their outstanding contributions to finance research. 

 

Kose John holds the Charles William Gerstenberg Professorship in Banking and Finance at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. Additionally, he is the Director of the NSE-NYU Stern Initiative on the Study of Indian Capital Markets and Coordinator of the India Initiative of the Center for Global Economy and Business. Since 2016, he serves on the Nomination Committee for the Nobel Prize in Economics. Furthermore, he served as the Program Chair and the President of the Financial Management Association International during 2014-15, and he became a Fellow of the FMA International in 2022. He has received various awards including the Batterymarch Fellowship (1983-84), the Jensen Prize for the Best Paper published in 2000 in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial Economics All Star Paper (1990, 1995), the Financial Management Association Award for Outstanding and Dedicated Service (1994), the “Distinguished Scholar” award at the Rising Stars Conference at Fordham University (2016). His research, both theoretical and empirical, covers a variety of topics, like: Fin Tech, Banking, Corporate Finance, Economics of Information, Capital Markets Theory, Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis. He has been a mentor and advisor to more than 100 doctoral students who are finance professors and finance practitioners all over the world. He is the author of two books (on futures markets and dividend policy), editor of 22 books and special issues of finance journals, and he has published over 110 research article in finance, economics, and management journals, including among others the: American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Review of Finance, Journal of Business, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies. His work has received more than 25,000 Google Scholar citations (15 June 2024).

 

Thorsten Beck is Director of the Florence School of Banking and Finance and Professor of Financial Stability at the European University Institute. Additionally, he is a Research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the CESifo, Co-chair of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (2023-2027), and Co-Editor of the Journal of Banking & Finance. In the past he served as a Professor of banking and finance at Bayes Business School (2013 – 2021) as well as a Professor of economics (2008 – 2014) and the founding chair of the European Banking Center (2008 – 2013) at Tilburg University. He has also been a Consultant (1997-1999), Young Professional (1999-2001) and Senior Economist (2001-208) at the research department of the World Bank. Furthermore, he has served as Co-Editor at the Review of Finance (2015-17) and as a consultant for – among others- the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the BIS, the IMF, the OECD, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Commission, the German Development Corporation. His research, academic publications and policy work have focused on two major questions: (i) What is the relationship between finance and economic development? (ii) What policies are needed to build a sound and effective financial system? He is the author of nearly 30 book chapters as well as the author/editor of several books and numerous policy papers and reports for organizations like the European Parliament, European Systemic Risk Board, World Bank, etc. He has published around 90 research articles in academic journals, like the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, Management Science, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking & Finance. His work has received more than 95,000 Google Scholar citations (15 June 2024).