Keynote speakers
Darrell Duffie, Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business - Stanford University
Darrell Duffie is the Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He is a member of the Financial Advisory Roundtable of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a Fellow and member of the Council of the Econometric Society, a Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the board of directors of Moody's Corporation since 2008. Duffie was the 2009 president of the American Finance Association. His recent books include How Big Banks Fail (Princeton University Press, 2010), Measuring Corporate Default Risk (Oxford University Press, 2011), and Dark Markets: Asset Pricing and Information Transmission in Over-the-Counter Markets (Princeton University Press, 2012).
Ike Mathur, Editor-in-Chief of Journal Banking and Finance, Southern Illinois University
Ike Mathur is Professor of Finance, Department of Finance, at Southern Illinois University. During 2001-2002 he was Visiting Professor of Finance at the nationally ranked Olin School of Business, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. He has previously taught at the Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh He has published in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Business, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Futures Markets, Economic Letters, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Advertising, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Academy of Marketing Science, and Journal of Macromarketing. His extensive managerial experience includes serving as Interim Dean for the College of Business, Chair of the Department of Finance, and Director of Doctoral programs, all at SIUC. He is the author or co-author of over 120 articles and 14 books, two of them being European Equity Markets and Corporate Financial Decisions (with John Doukas), and Wealth Creation in Eastern Europe (with Fred R. Kaen). He serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals and was the executive editor of Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, and of Journal of Multinational Financial Management, both published by Elsevier Science. Currently, he is the executive co-editor of the prestigious Journal of Banking and Finance. During 1983/84, he was Fulbright Professor of International Business at Turku School of Economics in Finland and during 1993/94 he was Fulbright Professor of International Finance at Portuguese Catholic University in Portugal. He has served as a consultant to numerous agencies including USAID and AMIDEAST, and has extensive training and evaluation experience in the Mideast, China, the Pacific Rim, and Europe He is listed in a variety of directories including Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Who's Who in the Midwest, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Community Leaders of America, and Who's Who Among Asian Americans. In 1995, 1998 and 2006 he was named Researcher of the Year in the College of Business and Administration, SIUC.
Panel Discussants
Con Keating, Head of Research at BrightonRock Group
Con is currently a member of the steering committee of the financial econometrics research centre at the University of Warwick and of the Systemic Risk Research Centre at the London School of Economics. As a research fellow of the Finance Development Centre he published widely on the regulation of financial institutions and pension systems, and also developed new statistical tools for the analysis of financial data, such as Omega functions and metrics,. From 1994 to 2001, Con was chairman of the committee on methods and measures of the European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies and currently is a member of their Research and Market Structure Commissions. Con has also served as an advisor and consultant to the OECD's private pensions committee and a number of other international institutions, including the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.
In a career spanning more than forty years, Con has worked as an infrastructure project financier, investment manager and research analyst in Europe, Asia and the United States. He serves on the boards of a number of educational and charitable foundations and as a trustee of several pension schemes. He is currently Head of Research for the BrightonRock pension indemnity assurance group.
Jean-François Serval, Foreign Partner of Constantin Associates CPA LLP and French CPA
Jean-François Serval is one of the founders of Constantin Associates and Constantin Associés what became the Constantin Group a multinational accounting firm that he quitted in 2008.
He is a partner in the US with Constantin Associates LLP, the CEO of Constantin Services Inc. and Leon Constantin Consulting Inc. He is also a founder partner with Groupe Audit SA and its operational accounting firm Serval & Associés a European accounting practice and the flagship for the Serval & Associés/ Constantin CPA network that he created in 2009 with member firms as Constantin Associates in the US, or subsidiaries as Serval & Associates Co. Ltd in Singapore and others in France, Europe, Africa and correspondents.
He sits at the board or is a member of several professional and not professional organizations as the European League for Economic Co-operation -ELEC, the International Fiscal Association IFA and represents the new Constantin network at the Forum of Firms (an arm of IFAC in charge of promoting the quality of international audits) and gathering 21 of the major international accounting firms. In the past he held several governmental and nongovernmental positions as a seat at the CNC (1989-1997) (the French accounting standard Board) designated as qualified person by the Minister of finance. He has an active role in audit and accounting standard settings and at the Managing Committee for small and medium size companies (Minister JP Raffarin 1995-1997).
Yuri Biondi, Associated Professor at ESCP Europe and research fellow of the CNRS
Yuri Biondi is tenured research fellow of the CNRS, appointed to ESCP Europe. Graduate of Bocconi University of Milan, of Lyon University, of Brescia University and of Paris Sorbonne University, he is editor in chief of the Journal "Accounting, Economics and Law: A Convivium", editor in chief of the collective work "The Firm as an Entity: Implications for Economics, Accounting and Law" (Routledge, 2007), co-editor of "The Socio-Economics of Accounting" (Socio-Economic Review, special issue, October 2007), as well as co-editor, with Stefano Zambon, of the collective work "Accounting and Business Economics: Insights from National Traditions" (Routledge, 2012). His research interests include economic theory, accounting and financial regulation, as well as the relationships between economy, accounting, and finance in for-profit, not-for-profit and governmental entities.
Christian de Boissieu, Prof. at University of Paris-IPanthéon-Sorbonne, Economic Advisor to the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Président of the LabEx Scientific Comittee
Christian de Boissieu received a Ph. D in economics in 1973 at the University of Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He was post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University and Northwestern University (1973-74), and visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota (1978) and at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1982).
He is currently Professor at the University of Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne where he is the director of the famous Master's Degree in Banking and Finance. Moreover, he taught at the College of Europe of Bruges (1999-04). He was consultant to the World Bank and to the European Commission, and has been in charge of a TACIS program mission in Russia on domestic arrears, monetary policy and banking regulation. He is also economic adviser to the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and member of the "Conseil National du Crédit", "Comité des Etablissements de Crédit et des Entreprises d'Investissement" (CECEI) and of the "Comité de la Réglementation Bancaire et Financiére". He is honorary President of the French Finance Association and of the "Société d'Economie Politique".
He was a member of the advisory board of J.P. Morgan (France) and member of the Advisory Board of Ernst & Young (France). Since 2003, he has been President of the "Conseil d'Analyse économique" attached to the French Prime Minister. He has published many books and articles in the field of monetary analysis and economic policy. He is a regular columnist for Le Figaro, Le Monde and Les Echos.
Jérôme Haas, Chairman of the Board of the French Accounting Standards Authority (ANC: Autorité des normes comptables)
Jérôme HAAS was named Chairman of the Autorité des Normes Comptables (ANC) in January 2010. The ANC is the French accounting standard-setter. He is also member of the Boards fo the French market regulator (AMF) and prudential supervisor (ACP).
He previously served as deputy director at the French Treasury, where he has held several positions: In the field of public sector management, including in the agency in charge of State-owned companies; in the field of international finance, he has served as Alternate Executive Director at the World Bank in Washington and Secretary General of the Paris Club. In recent years, he has been active in the field of financial regulation, serving on regulatory committees at the national, European and international levels, including the Haut Conseil du Commissariat aux Comptes in France and the Financial Stability Board at international level. Jérôme Haas joined the French Treasury after his studies at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration. He holds a degree from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris ("Sciences Po") and a degree in Law from the Universityof Paris.
Vivien Lévy-Garboua, Senior Advisor for BNP Paribas
Vivien is a graduate from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines in Paris. He also has a Ph.D in Economics from Harvard University (1974). He is currently a Senior Advisor for BNP Paribas, a position he assumed from 1st September 2008, and Professeur associé in Economics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences-Po),. He heads the steering Committee of Paris Europlace.
He joined Banque Nationale de Paris in 1980 where he held the following positions: Corporate Banking and Development Department, Head of Organization & Methods and EDP Department. Executive Vice President - Corporate Banking Division, Senior Executive Vice President, Head of the International Division (1994), Head of Asset Management & Services and Member of the Executive Committee (2000), Head of Compliance and Internal Control Coordinator (2005)
He is the co-author of several books such as "Contemporary Macroeconomics" (with B. Weymuller), "Debt, Boom, Crisis" (with G. Maarek), "MacroPsychanalyse, l'économie de l'inconscient" (with G. Maarek), and "Les 100 mots de la Crise Financière" (with B. Jacquillat).
Edouard de Vieillefond, Managing Director of Regulation Policy and International Affairs Division of the AMF (Autorité des Marchés Financiers)
Mr Vieillefond, a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique, holds a postgraduate degree in industrial economics. He began his career in 1995 at the Defence Ministry.
In 1998 he joined the Treasury Department of the Ministry of Economics and Finance as deputy head of the international monetary and financial system department, which draws up French policy on international monetary and financial affairs. In 2001 he was appointed toBrusselsas Deputy Secretary General of the European Union's Economic and Financial Committee (EFC) at the European Commission, where he prepared the meetings of the EFC, the ECOFIN and the Eurogroup.
Mr Vieillefond moved in 2003 to the State Shareholding Agency at the Treasury and Economic Policy Directorate of the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry, where he served as Head of the rail, sea and automotive transport unit (2003-2006) and then as Investment Director at the energy division, the position he has held until June 2009. He has been since the Managing Director in charge of the AMF's Regulation Policy and International Affairs Division.
Raphael Douady, CNRS and University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Riskdata
Raphael Douady is a French mathematician and economist, specialised in financial mathematics and chaos theory. With more than fifteen years experience in the banking industry (risk management, option models, trading strategies) and thirty years research in pure and applied mathematics, Dr Douady is renowned for his highly sophisticated quantitative solutions and statistical analysis. A former fellow of Ecole Normale Supérieure inParis, he earned his Ph.D. in 1982 in Hamiltonian dynamics and became strongly involved in Finance in 1993. Currently affiliated with University of Paris 1-Sorbonne Economic Center (CES) and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), he has also been appointed International Associate Professor at New York University Polytechnic Institute. He has lead and organized numerous academic, as well as practitioner conferences around the world, including the New York University seminar of Mathematical Finance and Paris Europlace conferences. His most recent research topics are Hedge Funds risks, for which he has developed especially suited powerful nonlinear statistical models, and systemic risk.
Raphael Douady is one of the founders and the research director of Riskdata, a market-leading provider of risk management tools for investors, asset managers, hedge funds, fund of funds, and pension funds. He is also a member of a French "Laboratory of Excellence" devoted to financial regulation (LabEx ReFi), of the Praxis Club, a New York based think tank advising the French government on its economic policy and other related topics and on the "risk committee" of Finance Innovation, a French official entity supporting innovation in financial software.
Christopher Hossfeld, Associated Professor at Department FRA: Financial Reporting and Audit Member LabEX Réfi ESCP Europe
Christopher HOSSFELD is Associate Professor in the Financial Reporting and Audit department at ESCP Europe, Paris, which he joined after studying and working in Germany and the Sorbonne.
His fields of expertise cover financial accounting, international accounting as well as bank accounting and regulation. His research focuses especially on aspects of international accounting harmonization and comparability.
Gilbert Gélard, former member of the IASB and Partner of the accounting firm BMA
Graduated from HEC Paris, French Chartered accountant and auditor
Professional career: as auditor, chief financial officer, lecturer and, above all, accounting standard setter, both in France and as a IASB Board Member. At present chief editor of the Revue Française de Comptabilité.
David Alexander, University of Birmingham & ESCP Europe Paris
'David recently retired as Professor of International Accounting at University of Birmingham, U.K. He remains active as author of textbooks and research papers, as mentor, and on the review and conference circuit'.
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