PAUL U. ALI Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne, Australia SERGIO SANFILIPPO AZOFRA Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Cantabria, Spain WOLFGANG BREUER Full Professor of Finance at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany MERCER BULLARD Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law, USA, and Founder and President of Fund Democracy RADU BURLACU Associate Professor of Finance at the University Pierre Mendes France, Grenoble, France RACHEL CAMPBELL Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands CARLO FIORIO Assistant Professor (Ricercatore) in the Department of Economics at Milan State University, Italy PATRICE FONTAINE PhD. Professor of Finance at the University Pierre Mendes, France GIAMPAOLO GABBI Full Professor of Banking and of Risk Management at the University of Siena, Italy, and Senior Teacher at SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy ALEXEI P. GORIAEV Assistant Professor in Finance at the New Economic School, Moscow, Russia SONIA JIMENEZ-GARCES Associate Professor of Finance at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France ROMAN KRAUSSL Assistant Professor of Finance at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Research Fellow with the Centre for Financial Studies, Frankfurt/Main, Germany GUANGXI JIA LLM Candidate at the Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, USA JULIO LOBAO Doctoral Student in Management Sciences at University ofMinho, Portugal; MSc in Finance and Undergraduate in Economics at Faculdade de Economia, University of Porto, Portugal CARLOS LOPEZ-GUTIERREZ Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Cantabria, Spain CLAUDIO MARSALA Quantitative Portfolio Manager in Ras Asset Management CLARK L. MAXAM Director of research at Braddock Financial Corporation JIN MENG MENG LLM Candidate at Washington University in St. Louis, USA MANUEL MORENO Assistant Professor of Financial Economics and Accounting at the University of Castilla La-Mancha at Toledo, Spain, and Associate Editor of Revista de Economia Financiera and Member of GARP (Global Association of Risk Professionals) ANDREAS OEHLER Full Professor of Finance at Bamberg University, Germany, and has held a Chair in Management, Business Administration and Finance there since 1994 SEOW ENG ONG Associate Professor in the Department of Real Estate, National University of Singapore MASSIMILIANO PALLOTTA Member of the Risk Management Team of Ras Asset Management MARCO PERCOCO Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy JOSHUA PULLAN Corporate Alliances Department at Sotheby's, London, UK JI QI LLM Candidate at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, USA, and a 2001 Graduate of Nankai University STEFANO RICCI Joined the Quantitative Portfolio Management Unit in June 2004 at Ras Asset Management GONZALO RUBIO Full Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of theBasque Country, Spain MARCO RUMMER Currently completing his PhD in Financial Economics at the University of Bamberg, Germany MUHAMMAD AKBAR SAEED Assistant Professor of Finance, Department of Management Sciences at Bahria University, Karachi, Pakistan ROBERTO SAVONA Assistant Professor of Financial Markets and Institutions at University of Brescia, Department of Business Studies, Italy ANA PAULA SERRA Assistant Professor at Faculdade de Economia, Universidade of Porto, Portugal OLAF STOTZ Assistant Professor of Finance at RWTH Aachen University, Germany NADEEM A. SYED Associate Professor and Head of the Department, Management Sciences at Bahria University, Karachi, Pakistan, and Co-ordinator of Faculty Research Programme at Bahria University BEGONA TORRE OLMO Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of Cantabria, Spain THOMAS WALKER Assistant Professor, Concordia University in Montreal, Canada STEFAN WENDT Doctoral Student, Research and Teaching Assistant in Finance, University of Bamberg, Germany CRAIG WISEN Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks School of Management, Chartered Financial Analyst RAFFAELE ZENTI Quantitative Portfolio Manager at Ras Asset Management, Lecturer at the Master in Finance of CORIPE, University of Turin, Italy
