KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Geert Bekaert, Columbia University, USA
Professor Bekaert teaches courses on international finance, empirical asset pricing and investments. His research focus is international finance, with a particular interest in foreign exchange market efficiency, exchange rate determination and international and emerging equity markets. He is also interested in portfolio management. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Finance, the Emerging Markets Review and the Pacific Basin Finance Journal and is coeditor of the Journal of Empirical Finance. Bekaert is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.