European Financial Management Association-2013 Ballot


EUROPEAN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
2013 Ballot



This is the 2013 Ballot for the election of Officers and Board Members of the European Financial Management Association. Please take a few minutes to read the candidates' biographical sketches, posted on our website, and then return your vote by e-mail before December 15, 2013.The Nominating Committee has put together an excellent slate for next year. It would also be helpful to the 2014 Nominating Committee if you could take a few minutes to suggest a name or two for next year's slate of candidates. The Nominating Committee is eager to receive such suggestions.

Simone Varotto University of Reading
2013-2014 President
European Financial Management Association

EUROPEAN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
Official Ballot 2013

Please mark [yes] and return by e-mail this ballot to: John A.Doukas

To be counted, ballots must be returned by December 15, 2013.
For Presidents (1-year term)
Alessandro Carretta and Gianluca Mattarocci
University of Rome Tor Vergata

For Co-President-Elect (1-year term)
2015 Program chair Dennis Vink, Universiteit Nyenrode.

For Board Members (3-year term) - Insert your Vote [yes] for five

Monica Billio               University Ca'Foscari of Venice                      [        ]
Nabil Kahale               ESCP Europe                                               [        ]
Catherine Koch           University of Zurich                                        [        ]
Elisabeth Muller          Frankfurt School of Finance & Management    [        ]
Ania Zalewska            University of Bath                                          [        ]



Suggestions for 2014-15 Nominations
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BOARD CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES

Monica Billio
Monica Billio is Full Professor of Econometrics at the University Ca' Foscari of Venice, where she teaches Econometrics and Financial Econometrics. She graduated in Economics from the University Ca' Foscari of Venice and holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics obtained at the University Paris IX Dauphine in 1999. Her main research interests include financial econometrics, with applications to risk measurement and management, volatility modelling, hedge funds, financial crises and systemic risk; business cycle analysis; dynamic latent factor models; simulation based inference techniques. She coordinates several research projects financed by the European Commission, Eurostat, the Italian Ministry of Research (MIUR). The results of these and other research projects have appeared in peer-refereed journals including Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Financial Econometrics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Journal of Forecasting and European Journal of Operational Research. Moreover, she is head of the School of Economics, Languages and Entrepreneurship (Treviso branch of the University Ca' Foscari of Venice), Deputy Head of the Department of Economics, President of the Teaching Committee of the Master Degree in Economics and Finance and member of the Teaching Committee of the PhD in Quantitative Economics at the same University.

Nabil Kahale
Nabil Kahale is an Associate Professor at ESCP Europe since September 2004. Prior to joining ESCP Europe, he worked in the fields of Financial Derivatives and Risk Management and held research positions in the areas of Theoretical Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. His current interests include Risk Management and Financial Derivatives Pricing. He has published in Mathematical Finance, Risk Magazine, Annals of Applied Probability, Mathematical Programming, and SIAM Journal on Computing, among others. Nabil Kahale graduated with a B.S. in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique (France) and received a M.Sc. from University Pierre et Marie Curie (France). He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical Computer Science from MIT.

Catherine Koch
Catherine Koch is a Post-Doc at the University of Zurich, Switzerland and a visiting researcher at the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt, Germany. In Fall 2011 she was a visiting fellow at Columbia University. Her research covers international banking, financial integration and consumer finance with a focus on housing and mortgage markets. Part of her research was published by the Journal of International Economics and the Review of Finance. Catherine holds a Ph.D. with the honors of Summa Cum Laude from the University of Zurich.

Elisabeth Mueller
Elisabeth Mueller is a Professor of Innovation Management at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management since September 2010. Prior to joining Frankfurt School, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for European Economic Research at Mannheim (Germany). She has worked extensively on issues of Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance. In Corporate Finance her work concentrates on the financing of innovative companies and on the determinants of equity returns for private companies. Her work has been published in the Review of Finance, the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Research Policy, Applied Economics, and Small Business Economics, among others. Elisabeth graduated in Economics from the University of Mannheim, and received a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Ania Zalewska
Ania Zalewska is a Professor of Finance at the School of Management, University of Bath (UK) since September 2005 and the Founding Director of the Centre for Governance and Regulation at the University of Bath since 2009. Her early academic career was as a mathematician and she held research positions at the Department of Mathematics at the Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland). She graduated in Mathematics from the University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska in Lublin (Poland), received an MSc in Theoretical Mathematics and an MSc in Numerical Methods ad Programming from the University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska in Lublin (Poland), and PhD in Mathematics from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (Poland). She then transferred to finance and obtained a PhD in Financial Economics from the London Business School. She has published in finance and economic journals on the development of capital markets (with a focus on emerging markets), privatisation and regulation of utilities, development of the pension industry and corporate governance, (Journal of Financial Economics, the Economic Journal, Journal of Empirical Finance, etc.) Prior to joining Bath she worked at the Limburg Institute of Financial Economics at Maastricht University (NL), and Centre for Economic Forecasting at the London Business School.


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