Keynote lectures will be held by
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Professor Erich Walter FARKAS, Ph.D. (University of Zurich, Switzerland) |
Erich Walter Farkas is Professor for Quantitative Finance, Department of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich (Switzerland). He has PhD in Mathematics, with Summa cum laude, at Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena (Germany) followed by Habilitation in Mathematics and Privat Dozent at Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. Also, he is involved in other activities as Program Director at UZH ETH joint degree for Master of Science in Quantitative Finance, UZH Certificate of Advanced Studies in Risk Management for Banking and Finance, Swiss Finance Institute, Center of Competence Finance in Zurich (CCFZ). At Swiss Risk Association, Professor Farkas is Co-president. His research activities focused on valuation of options, measuring risks, capital requirements, defaultable securities, behaviour finance, stress testing, and asset management. Professor Farkas has experience as manager of grants such as MC-IEF - Intra-European Fellowship (IEF), Sciex-NMS Fellowship, and joint proposal financed by The Swiss National Science Foundation. His expertise in quantitative finance and mathematics is highlighted by the press. For more details: https://people.math.ethz.ch/~farkas/.
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Peter KERSTENS (Adviser, DG FISMA and Co-Chair of the FinTech Task Force, European Commission) |
Peter advises on Technological Innovation, Digital Transformation and Cybersecurity at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union. He has led work on the European Commission’s Fintech Action Plan and Co-chairs the European Commission’s Fintech Taskforce. He has extensive experience and expertise in EU policy and regulation covering financial services, digitalisation, security and consumer protection. Earlier in his career, Peter was Finance Counsellor at the EU Embassy in Washington DC. He has also been a member of the private offices of the commissioner for the internal market and services and the commissioner for health and consumer protection. Before joining the European Commission, Peter advised major financial services companies on EU regulatory affairs. He is a Dutch national and holds master degrees in European affairs and political science from the College of Europe in Bruges and the University of Leuven, Belgium.
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Professor Radu TUNARU, PhD. (University of Sussex Business School, UK) |
Radu Tunaru is Professor of Finance and Risk Management at the University of Sussex Business School. His research is focused on financial derivatives, model risk risk management and applied financial econometrics with over 80 publications in those areas. The books Model Risk in Financial Markets (World Scientific Publishing), Real Estate Derivatives (Oxford University Press) and Preparing for the Next Financial Crisis (co-editor, Cambridge University Press) reflect his expertise. He published several papers with Robert Shiller, the Nobel laureate for Economics in 2013. Tunaru is associate editor for the Journal of Banking and Finance and member of the Associate Editor Board of the Journal of Derivatives and the Journal of Portfolio Management. Also, he is the current Head of Accounting and Finance Department. He conducted consulting for various banks, hedge-funds, start-ups and executive training houses including Lloyds and London Financial Studies.
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Professor Stavros A. ZENIOS, PhD. (University of Cyprus and the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts, Non-Resident Fellow at Bruegel, Brussels, and Senior Fellow, The Wharton Financial Institutions Center, USA) |
Stavros Zenios is Professor of finance and management science at University of Cyprus and a founding member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts. He is also affiliated with the Bruegel think tank in Brussels, and the Wharton School, USA. He is currently dedicated to research on sovereign debt issues. He is engaged in the development of stochastic dynamic models for debt sustainability analysis, risk management for debt, and studying the impact of political risks. Recently he also ventured into climate change risk. He published more than 150 scholarly articles in leading journals and two authored books. He edited seven books with Cambridge University Press, Blackwell and Wiley Finance. He co-authored with Yair Censor the award-winning book "Parallel Optimization", Oxford University Press, and his book with Patrick Harker on "Performance of Financial Institutions" was translated in Chinese. A list of publications is posted Google Scholar with h-index 53. He received several prizes and awards. He expresses his views in media relating to the Eurozone and especially Cyprus crisis, transparency and corruption. Also, he was Vice chairman of the Cyprus Council of Economic Advisors (2013-2014), and served on the Board of the Central Bank of Cyprus (2014-2015), two terms as President of UNICA-Universities of European Capitals (2004-2012) and two terms as Rector of University of Cyprus (2002-2010).
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