Richard A. Brealey

Special Adviser to the Governor of the Bank of England and Visiting Professor at the London Business School. For many years Professor Brealey was the Tokai Bank Professor of Finance at the London Business School. He is a fellow of the British Academy, a former President of the European Finance Association, and a former Director of the American Finance Association. He is co-author (with Stewart Myers) of Principles of Corporate Finance, the leading graduate-level corporate finance textbook.

Stewart C. Myers

Gordon Y. Billard Professor of Finance at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Dr. Myers is past President of the American Finance Association and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research has focused on financing decisions, valuation methods, the cost of capital, and financial aspects of government regulation of business. Dr. Myers is a Director of The Brattle Group, Inc. and is active as financial consultants.

Alan Marcus

Professor of Finance in the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College and Visiting Professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management. His main research interests are in derivatives and securities markets. He is co-author (with Alex Kane and Zvi Bodie) of Investments, the leading graduate-level investments textbook. Professor Marcus spent two years at Freddie Mac where he helped to develop mortgage pricing and credit risk models. He currently serves on the Research Foundation Advisory Board of the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR) and the Advisory Council for the Currency Risk Management Alliance of State Street Bank and Windham Capital Management, Boston.

Elizabeth M. Maynes

Associate Professor of Finance at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto. Her current research interests are in experimental economics and finance, where theories are tested with human subjects. Through this research, she has examined peoples' decisions whether to evade tax, whether to tender shares in a takeover bid and how much to contribute towards a public good. In addition, Professor Maynes conducts research on the role and value of voting rights of shareholders, initial public offerings and takeovers. Her research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Financial Research Foundation. Professor Maynes has extensive experience teaching introductory and corporate finance to undergraduate and MBA students and to managers.

Devashis Mitra

Professor of Finance at the Faculty of Administration, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. He has extensive experience teaching introductory and advanced courses, in Corporate Finance and International Finance, to undergraduate and MBA students. Professor Mitra has conducted research in areas such as dividend policy, working capital, capital structure, international capital budgeting, financial markets and venture capital. His present research examines accounting and market measures of performance. Professor Mitra's research projects have been funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. He has served as a past Finance Division Chair, Academic Reviewer and Program Chair at conferences of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada.