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Farooq AHMAD

Globalisation

Farooq Ahmad holds a PhD degree in Finance jointly from the Université Lille 2 and Skema Business School. His research interests are in Empirical Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, International Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, National Culture, Labor Market Institutions and CEO Behavior. He has presented his research at major conferences including WFA, EFA, SFS Cavalcade, CICF, NFA and FMA meetings. His work has been published in Journal of Banking & Finance. He has received Best Paper award in 2017 at French Finance Association (AFFI) annual meeting and finalist of Best Paper award in 2018 at FMA Asia-Pacific meeting. He has been visiting PhD student at the Foster Business School, University of Washington, United States. He has professional experience of 4 years in Internal Audit.

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Michael HANSON

Innovation

Michael Hanson has double nationality, as he was born in the USA and obtained French citizenship nearly 20 years ago. He is the Head of the Two-Year MSc Program at Skema Business School which has more than 500 students in France, Brazil, China, and the USA. Previosly, Mr. Hanson worked as Director of International Online and Executive Programs for ESCEM School of Business and Management for 20 years, where he also developed the first independent International Online MBA for a 'Grand Ecole'. He has managed educational programs in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Central America and Africa. As a professional trainer, he has taught and trained in more than 20 countries around the world in the areas of sales, negotiation, leadership, communication and organization design, behavior and practices. He started his own company in Executive Consulting and Coaching, working with companies to train executives from Asia, Central America, the United States, France, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Cameroun, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Having a passion for muscle cars and classic boats, he also started a company with his oldest son, buying, restoring and selling classic vehicles. His favorite classes to teach are ones that have a large mix of international students, where different perspectives and experiences truly enrich the learning experience.

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Florencio LOPEZ DE SILANES MOLINA

Globalisation

Florencio Lopez de Silanes is in the finance area, and Academic Adviser at SKEMA Business School. He has also been a professor at Harvard University, Yale University, the University of Amsterdam, EDHEC, and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. His lifetime academic citations place him among the three most widely cited business authors in the world according to the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) and Thomson Scientific's Essential Science indicators. His research interests and main publications are in corporate finance, corporate governance, family firms, law and finance, regulation of financial markets and banks, state-owned enterprises, and legal reform and deregulation. His work has also been influential in such organizations as the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the World Economic Forum. He has likewise worked closely with several business organizations such as the Asian Business Council, the Lex-Mundi Law Firm Association, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, and the Latin American Corporate Governance Network. He has also worked as expert witness in corporate governance, and advised family firms, banks and corporations trying to improve their governance mechanisms and succession policies. Finally, he has also worked with financial regulators and investors trying to protect their shareholder rights and push firms to improve investor protection standards. His academic and applied work has dealt broadly with the analysis of what governance structures are appropriate for what economies and firms, what makes for good laws and regulations, and the socioeconomic institutions that are key elements of a smoothly functioning market economy. His research has influenced discussions and reforms in a number of firms and countries, in the European Union and the North American Free Trade Area, as well as in international Financial institutions. He has been directly involved in reform in the areas of financial sector restructuring, foreign investment, securities law, corporate law and bankruptcy law reform in several nations. He received Harvard's Wells Prize for the Best Dissertation in Economics, the Brattle Prize for distinguished paper in the Journal of Finance of the American Finance Association (1999), the Jensen Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the areas of corporate finance and organizations, and the All Star Paper prize from the Journal of Financial Economics for achieving a high number of citations. His academic work has also been recognized by the World Economic Forum, which named him one of the '100 Global Leaders of Tomorrow' in 2003, and his recent membership of Academia Europaea in 2010. He received the highest distinction by the government of France when he was made 'Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur' by the President of France for his academic contribution.

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Thierry WARIN

Digitalisation

Professor of Applied Data Science for International Business and creator of a technological platform dedicated to research in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Thierry Warin joined SKEMA in 2019. Visiting Scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (Harvard University, 2015-2017) and Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MOC) Network Faculty Affiliate (ISC, Harvard Business School, 2016-), Thierry is the Founder and Director of the SKEMA Global Lab in Augmented Intelligence. One of PLOS One's academic editors, Thierry held positions in several academic institutions (Middlebury College USA, Polytechnique Montreal, HEC Montreal, Sun Yat Sen University Guangzhou, UIBE Beijing). Thierry's research is primarily about global transformations, seen through two main dimensions: (1) the geographic changes, and (2) the technological changes. Both dimensions are strongly related. Thierry uses Data Science (R, GIS, Econometrics) to study innovation, institutions, regulations and economic dynamics. His methodology of choice is Data Science, with a particular focus on high-power computing-based Econometrics and Ensemble methods. He has conducted research at the Weatherhead Center for International Business at Harvard University and CIRANO in Montreal where he created an international data visualization platform called Mondo International (www.mondo.international) and the Social Data Science Lab (www.socialdatasciencelab.org) An alumnus of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, he completed his PhD in Monetary Economics and Finance at Essec Business School in Paris.

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