KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Jérôme B. Detemple is the Morton H. and Charlotte Friedman Professor of Finance at Boston University Questrom School of Business. He holds a PhD in Finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a Doctorat D Etat es Sciences Économiques from Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg. He has published over 60 articles in academic journals, including Econometrica, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies, and is widely known for his contributions to valuation, risk management and asset allocation. He is the author of American-Style Derivatives: Valuation and Computation (Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2005).

Professor Detemple is a former Editor-in-Chief of Mathematical Finance (2014-2019), Co-Editor of Management Science (2012-2014) and Associate Editor of Review of Financial Studies (1999-2002).

His current research focuses on Energy Markets, Asset Pricing, and Derivative Securities.

Professor Renée Adams from the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford

Renée is a truly global scholar. Her work focuses on information flows on boards, bank governance, group decision-making, the governance of central banks and gender diversity on and off boards.

After receiving an MS in Mathematics from Stanford University and a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago, 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.

Her global experience is reflected in the interdisciplinary nature of her research, which has been published in top accounting, economics, finance and management journals. 

In 2019 Renée won the Female Career Award from HEC Lausanne. This award honours twice a year an outstanding female academic career outside HEC and Renée won the 1st edition in 2019.

Renée’s work on gender diversity in particular has received global media coverage. Her work has been featured in news outlets such as the Financial Times, the Economist, the Daily Telegraph, Boston Globe, Australian Associated Press, The Australian, Irish Herald, Scotland on Sunday, Board IQ, Press Trust of India, The New Zealand Herald, Berlingske Nyhedsmagasin, NK (Norway), Politiken (Denmark), DN (Norway) among others.