Hélène Rey is the Lord Bagri Professor of Economics at London Business School, where she has been a faculty member since 2007. A leading voice in global macroeconomics, her research has fundamentally reshaped our understanding of international capital flows, exchange rate dynamics, and the architecture of the global financial system. Before joining London Business School, she was a Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University (2000–2007), where she established herself as one of the most influential macroeconomists of her generation.
Professor Rey is best known for her work on the "Global Financial Cycle" and challenged the long-standing "Mundellian Trilemma." Her research has been published in the world's leading journals, including the Review of Economic Studies, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy. Her contributions have been recognized with the most prestigious honors in the field such as The Yrjö Jahnsson, The Birgit Grodal, and Carl Menger Awards.
She was on the board of the Review of Economic Studies (2008-2015), an associate editor of the AEJ: Macroeconomics Journal. She is a co-editor of the Annual Review of Economics, Vice President of CEPR and an NBER Research Associate. She has been elected the 2025 President of the European Economic Association.
Klaus F. Zimmermann is President of EBES; President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO); Co-Director of POP at UNU-MERIT; Full Professor of Economics at Bonn University (em.); Honorary Professor, Maastricht University, Free University of Berlin and Renmin University of China; Member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Regional Science Academy, and Academia Europaea (Chair of its Section for Economics, Business and Management Sciences). Among others, he has worked at Macquarie University, the Universities of Melbourne, Princeton, Harvard, Munich, Kyoto, Mannheim, Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Fellow of the European Economic Association (EEA), Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics. He serves in the Editorial Board of International Journal of Manpower, Research in Labor Economics and Comparative Economic Studies, among others. He is the Founding Director, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); Past-President, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW); Distinguished John G. Diefenbaker Award 1998 of the Canada Council for the Arts; Outstanding Contribution Award 2013 of the European Investment Bank; Rockefeller Foundation Policy Fellow 2017; Eminent Research Scholar Award 2017, Australia; EBES Fellow Award 2018. He has published in many top journals including Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Public Choice, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Population Economics and Journal of Public Economics. His research fields are population, labor, development, and migration.
Oskar Kowalewski is a Professor of Finance at IÉSEG School of Management, a member of LEM-CNRS 9221, and affiliated with the Institute of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences. He has previously held positions as Associate Professor at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), Kozminski University, and Vistula University in Warsaw. Professor Kowalewski has a diverse range of international academic experience. In 2005, he was awarded the Kosciuszko Postdoc Fellowship for a one-year research fellowship at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. From 2009 to 2011, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Wharton Financial Institutions Center. He has also held positions as a DAAD Professor at European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/O) and as a visiting professor at the University of Glasgow, Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Osnabrück, and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
His primary research interests lie in banking, corporate finance, corporate governance, and more recently, agroeconomics. His contributions to these fields were acknowledged in 2014 when he received a prestigious award from the President of the National Bank of Poland for his habilitation, a significant achievement in the bank's history. He has successfully led numerous research grants funded by both public and private institutions.
He currently serves as an Associate Editor in International Review of Economics and Finance and Economic Modelling.
Arman Eshraghi is a professor of finance with 15 years of experience in academic research, education and leadership following a professional background in financial services. He leads two interdisciplinary research groups on financial technology and behavioral finance, serves as managing/associate editor in several peer-reviewed journals, and acts as consultant to financial firms. His research spans across investments, behavioral finance, corporate finance and financial technology. Arman’s work is published in some leading journals of finance, accounting and management, and is regularly cited in the media. He has delivered award-winning teaching to student and executive cohorts in the UK, Europe and Asia.
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