Lucio Sarno is Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School,  University of Cambridge, where he also served as Head of the Finance Group from 2020 to 2024. He is also a Professorial Fellow of Girton College, and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Prior to joining the University of Cambridge, Lucio was Professor of Finance at the University of London (Bayes Business School, formerly Cass Business School), where he also served as Deputy Dean and Head of the Faculty of Finance; the Tommie Goh Distinguished Chair Professor of Finance at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University (part time); Professor of Finance at the University of Warwick, where he also served as Associate Dean of Research and Head of the Finance Group; the Schröder Fellow in Economics at University College, University of Oxford; a Post-doctoral scholar at Columbia University. Lucio?s main research interests are in international finance, empirical asset pricing, and asset management. In particular, he has written extensively on various aspects of currency markets. He also has broad interests in macroeconomics and its interaction with financial markets, especially the effects of monetary and exchange rate policy on asset prices. He is the author of over 100 articles, published in top finance journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies, as well as general and top field journals in economics and management science. He has authored and edited several books, including the Handbook of Exchange Rates (Wiley, 2012) and the graduate textbook The Economics of Exchange Rates (Cambridge University Press, 2003). His work is often featured or quoted in the press, including the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. Lucio's research has received funding from several agencies, including ESRC, Leverhulme and INQUIRE grants, and has been awarded Best Paper prizes at various conferences from the Western Finance Association, INQUIRE, the CEPR, the CFA, SoFIE, and others. In 2011, he was selected by Poets & Quants for their ?40 under 40?, a listing of the best 40 business schools professors under the age of 40. In addition to teaching and doing research, Lucio has been involved in policy advice, training, research and consulting projects for a number of institutions, including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the European Central Bank, the U.S. Federal Reserve Banks of New York and St. Louis, the Bank for International Settlements, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada, the Central Bank of Norway, the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance, the European Commission, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Bank of Korea, the Central Bank of Colombia. He has wide-ranging consulting experience in the finance industry, involving some of the world's leading asset management firms, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds, investment banks, and their research units, and has held full-time senior positions outside academia, including as Director of Currency Research at AXA Investment Managers. Among his current positions, Lucio is a member of the Senior Advisory Board of the Italian Ministry of Finance, and a member of the Council of Advisers of the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research.

Olivier is an Associate Professor of Finance at INSEAD. His research interests include corporate finance and behavioral finance. His research has been published in leading academic journals (Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance), practitioners' journals (Harvard Business Review) as well as profiled in a wide range of media including Financial Times, Forbes, or CNBC. He currently teaches in the MIM, MBA and PhD programs.

Olivier holds a PhD in finance from HEC Paris. Prior to joining INSEAD, he was a faculty member at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Before joining academia, Olivier was an investment banker at BNP Paribas. He worked for the M&A advisory divisions of the bank in Paris and Madrid from 2003 to 2010.

Professor Yuan received her Ph.D. in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to obtaining her Ph.D., she worked briefly in the Emerging Markets Trading Desk at J. P. Morgan (now JPMorgan-Chase). Her academic research focuses on developing macro-finance and asset pricing theories with liquidity implications in environments with information and market frictions and testing their empirical implications. In the past few years, she has examined how crises spread through international financial markets and how introducing benchmark securities such as treasury bonds or stock indices improves the overall market liquidity. She is currently working on issue related to liquidity and financial stability in bank and non-bank financial institutions including DeFi, macro implications of digital payment technologies, and developing applied theories of (digital) money and public liquidity. She is a member of FMG, CEPR and has also received Houblon-Norman Fellowship at the Bank of England. She has also conducted policy research for central banks and financial market regulators and worked as a research fellow at IMF and BIS.