David B. Audretsch

David B. Audretsch, Distinguished Professor, Ameritech Chair of Economic Development, Director, Institute for Development Strategies, Indiana University, United States & Co-Editor-in-Chief of Small Business Economics.

David Audretsch is a Distinguished Professor and the Ameritech Chair of Economic Development at Indiana University, where he also serves as Director of the Institute for Development Strategies. He is an Honorary Professor of Industrial Economics and Entrepreneurship at the WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germanyand a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London.

Audretsch’s research has focused on the links between entrepreneurship, government policy, innovation, economic development, and global competitiveness. He is co-author of The Seven Secrets of Germany, published by Oxford University Press. He is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal. He was awarded the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research by the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum(Entreprenörskapsforum). He has received honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Augsburg in Germany and Jonköping University in Sweden. Audretsch was also awarded the Schumpeter Prize from the University of Wuppertal in Germany.

Audretsch has served as an advisory board member to a number of international research and policy institutes, including Chair of the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Berlin (German Institute for Economic Analysis Berlin); Chair of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft (Foundation for the Promotion of German Science) in Berlin, Germany; the Center for European Economic Research (Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung) in Mannheim, Germany; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine; New York Academy of Sciences; the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum in Stockholm, Sweden; and the Jackstädt Centre for Entrepreneurship in Wuppertal, Germany.

Jonathan A. Batten

Jonathan A. Batten, Honorary Professor, University of Sydney Business School, Australia & Editor-in-Chief of Emerging Markets Review, and Journal of International Financial Markets and Institutions

Jonathan A. Batten is an Honorary Professor in the Discipline of Finance at the University of Sydney Business School. He also holds the CIMB-UUM Chair in Banking and Finance at University Utara Malaysia. Prior to this position he worked as a Professor in Finance at Monash University, Australia, the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, and Seoul National University, Korea. He is the managing editor of Elsevier’s highly ranked Emerging Markets Review, and Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money, and co-editor of Finance Research Letters.

Jonathan’s research crosses several disciplines: in the business area he has published work on insider trading and market manipulation, bond pricing and corporate foreign exchange risk management in journals used by the Financial Times for ranking business schools (e.g. Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and the Journal of International Business Studies). In addition, he has also published work in leading journals in applied mathematics on complexity in financial time series (e.g. Chaos and Physica A), on stock, gold and energy market integration (Energy Economics, Energy Policy and Resources Policy), and importantly in economic policy on financial market development and societal impacts of foreign direct investment (e.g. Applied Economics and the World Bank Research Observer). His current research is based on assessing the impact on financial markets and investor portfolios of the expected worldwide shift to renewable energy.

In addition, he has received several external research grants from the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank on the development of fixed income markets in the Asia-Pacific region, the international payments organisation SWIFT on the internationalisation of the RMB, and the international regulator, the Bank for International Settlements. He is the current President of the Eurasian Business and Economics Society (EBES) and has served on many national external research committees in economics and finance. He is currently an external appointee on the Academic Council of the University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

https://business.sydney.edu.au/staff/jonathan.batten

Péter Szilágyi

Péter Szilágyi, Associate Professor, Head of MS in Finance, and Head of FinTech Section, CEU InnovationsLab, Central European University, Hungary & Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Multinational Financial Management

Peter G. Szilagyi is Associate Professor, Head of MS in Finance, and Head of FinTech Section at the CEU InnovationsLab startup incubator.

Peter was Assistant Professor at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, in 2007-14 and was Director of the MPhil in Finance. He earned his PhD from Tilburg and held a research fellowship at Oxford Saïd Business School. He has been an external consultant to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, and before entering academia worked for the BBC World Service. He held one of the first research grants awarded by the SWIFT Institute.

Peter is Managing Editor of Elsevier's Journal of Multinational Financial Management, and Subject Editor of Emerging Markets Review and the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money.

https://people.ceu.edu/peter_szilagyi