Stefano Caselli

Caselli is full professor of Banking and Finance at Department of Finance, Università Bocconi, where he's Academic Director of the MSc in Finance and of the Master in International Management-MIM for CEMS. He's also Director of the Executive Education Division for Banks and Financial Institutions at SDA Bocconi School of Management and reserach fellow of CAREFIN and ENTER, the research centres of Università Bocconi devoted to finance and entrepreneurship. He has several publications on private equity and venture capital, corporate finance, corporate banking, SMEs and family firms' financing.

Marco Lamandini

Lamandini's research interests are in the area of company law, corporate governance, banking law, securities law, and intellectual property. He obtained his law degree cum laude from the Università di Bologna, where he teaches commercial law, and a master of laws degree from London School of Economics and Political Science. He also teaches securities law at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. A visiting fellow at the Max Plank Institut in Munich, at Magdalene College in the University of Cambridge and at Boalt Hall, School of Law of the University of California at Berkeley, he does consulting work for the European Parliament.

Florencio López de Silanes

López de Silanes is one of the world's five most cited academics on business and economics topics. A co-author of the LLSV index, he taught at Harvard, Yale and the University of Amsterdam before moving to EDHEC Grande Ecole in France. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Academic Board of the Fraser Institute. In 2003, the World Economic Forum’s Management Board selected him as one of the 100 young outstanding international leaders for business and society. 

Theo Vermaelen

Vermaelen is Professor of Finance at INSEAD and has taught at the University of British Columbia, the Catholic University of Leuven, London Business School, the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Chicago. He has published several articles on corporate finance and investments in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Journal of Banking and Finance. He is co-editor of the Journal of Empirical Finance, associate editor of the Journal of Corporate Finance and the European Financial Review and advisory editor of Teaching and Case Abstracts.