Field of research: International Finance
Beatrice Weder di Mauro
Beatrice Weder di Mauro is a Swiss economist and the President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) since 2018. She is also Professor of Economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Research Professor and Distinguished Fellow-in-Residence at the Emerging Markets Institute of INSEAD Singapore, and a Senior Fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER).
Before joining CEPR, Beatrice Weder di Mauro served as a member of the German Council of Economic Experts from 2004 to 2012, becoming both the first woman and the first non-German to hold this position. Over the years, she has advised former German Chancellors Gerhard Schröder and Angela Merkel and served on the boards of several global corporations, including UBS, Roche, and ThyssenKrupp. She currently sits on the boards of Unigestion and Robert Bosch GmbH.
Her research interests include international macroeconomics, international finance, sustainable finance, impact investment, financial crises, and sovereign debt. She has published widely in leading academic journals and contributes regularly to the public policy debate through op-eds and media commentary.
Weder di Mauro earned her Doctorate and Habilitation in Economics from the University of Basel. Her career includes positions at the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and United Nations University, as well as visiting roles at Harvard University and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
She has also served as a consultant to numerous international organizations, including the IMF, World Bank, OECD Development Centre, European Commission, and European Central Bank. In 2020, she was appointed by the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Europe to the Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development, chaired by Mario Monti.
(Last updated September 2025)
Mikael Bergbrant
Dr. Mikael Bergbrant is an Assistant Professor in the department of Economics and Finance at St. Johns University. He holds an MBA and a Ph.D. from the University of South Florida and is a CFA charter holder.
His research interests are in the areas of international finance and risk management. He has accepted/published articles in several influential journals such as the Journal of Financial Intermediation, Financial Management, and the Journal of Banking and Finance. Dr. Bergbrant strongly believes in the value of presenting his own, and discussing others, research and he often participates in academic conferences.
Delroy M. Hunter
Professor Hunter is the Serge Bonanni Professor of International Finance at the University of South Florida (USF). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Warwick (UK), where he was a Commonwealth Scholar, an MA from the University of Florida, and a BSc from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Prior to joining USF in 2001, he was employed at Bentley University and the University of the West Indies. In addition, he has taught courses for different institutions in England and Singapore.
His research, which focuses on international finance, investments, and empirical asset pricing, has been published in several top academic journals, such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Business, and Financial Management. In addition, his research has won the Goldman Sachs Quant Award for research in Investments at the Western Finance Association conference, has been a semi-finalist for best paper awards at several academic conferences, and has been among the top 10 most frequently downloaded papers in different subfields at the Social Sciences Research Network. He has made presentations at various national and international meetings, central bank workshop, and university seminars, has reviewed articles for several peer-reviewed journals and applications to international grant funding agencies, assessed applications for tenure and promotion at different U.S. universities, and is an Associate Editor for the Quarterly Journal of Finance & Accounting. He is also actively community engaged, providing consultancy and advisory services to several entities in the United States and the Caribbean.
Oleg Shibanov
Oleg Shibanov is currently the Senior Lecturer and academic director of the M.A./M.Sc. applied finance programs at the New Economic School, Russia. He is also the director of the Centre for Research in Financial technologies and digital economy SKOLKOVO-NES. He holds a Ph.D.in Finance from the London Business School and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Moscow State University.
Oleg’s research interests include mutual funds and ETFs, macroeconomics and financial markets. He actively comments on Russian macroeconomics in media, including top Russian TV and newspapers, as well as in BBC, Forbes and DW.
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(Last updated May 2020)