Renée Adams is Professor of Finance at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford, UK. She held positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Stockholm School of Economics, the University of Queensland and the University of New South Wales and visiting positions in Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Sweden and the US. She is a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute and a Senior Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research. She currently sits on the Council of the Society for Financial Studies (SFS) and serves as a Finance Department Editor at Management Science. She co-founded AFFECT, the American Finance Association’s 'Academic Female Finance Committee', in 2015, and currently chairs it. Her global experience is reflected in the interdisciplinary nature of her research, which has been published in top accounting, economics, finance and management journals.

Matti Keloharju is Aalto Distinguished Professor and Eero Kasanen Professor of Finance at Aalto University School of Business, Finland. His primary research interest lies in investor behaviour, an area in which he is one of the leading scholars in the world. Prof. Keloharju is serving as an editorial member and reviewer of several international reputed journals.

Haim Levy is the Miles Robinson Professor of Business Administration at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Prof. Levy served as economic advisor to the Bank of Israel; the Israeli Ministry of Finance; Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor; and Ministry of National Infrastructures, among other government offices. He has won many awards, including the Hebrew University's Prize for Excellence in Research for 1996. Prof. Levy has introduced the theory of stochastic dominance and made significant contributions to financial economics and risk-management.