TURAN G. BALI
Georgetown University
Keynote Speakers
Turan G. Bali is the Robert Parker Chair Professor of Business Administration at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Professor Bali specializes in asset pricing, risk management, fixed income securities, and financial derivatives. A founding member of the Society for Financial Econometrics, he worked on consulting projects sponsored by major financial institutions and government organizations in the U.S. and other countries. He regularly presents his work at central banks, regulatory agencies, investment banks, hedge funds, and academic conferences. Professor Bali published three books and more than 50 articles in top-tier economics and finance journals, including the most prestigious journals in his field such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, Management Science, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. He was recently recognized as one of the most prolific researchers in finance, with over 15,000 citations. He has been ranked 88th among finance academics in the world based on publications in top four finance journals (JF, JFE, RFS, JFQA) over a 75-year period from 1946 to 2020. He has won several awards, including the Q-Group’s Jack Treynor Prize for quantitative research in finance. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
Philipp Schnabl
New York University
Philipp Schnabl is the Martin J. Gruber Professor in Asset Management and Professor of Finance at the New York University Stern School of Business, as well as the Sidney Homer Director of the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions. He is a Research Associate in Corporate Finance at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Affiliate in Financial Economics at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Professor Schnabl studies financial intermediation, monetary policy, and corporate finance. His work has been published in leading academic journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies. His research has received several awards, including the Journal of Finance 2012 Brattle Best Paper Prize, the Journal of Finance 2018 Amundi Pioneer Distinguished Paper Prize, the Journal of Finance 2021 Brattle Distinguished Paper Prize, and the Journal of Finance 2023 Brattle Best Paper Prize. He is a former Associate Editor at the Journal of Finance and the Review of Financial Studies and is currently a Co-Editor at the Journal of Financial Economics. Professor Schnabl earned his Ph.D. from the Economics Department at Harvard University, his M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School, and his B.A. and M.A. from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.