Chotibhak (Pab) Jotikasthira (USA)
Chotibhak (Pab) Jotikasthira is a Professor of Finance and Huffington Chair at the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. Prior to joining Cox, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jotikasthira’s research interests include financial intermediation, international finance, and fixed income, with a particular focus on trading behaviors of institutional investors and their impact on asset prices. He has written extensively on the effects of institutional frictions, including regulatory capital and accounting rules, on financial intermediaries’ investment and trading incentives, which in turn shape the overall risk and interconnectedness of asset markets.
Jotikasthira currently serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He was also an Associate Editor of the Review of Financial Studies.
His research has been published in leading journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies, and featured in several practitioner-oriented journals and business press, including the Economist among others. Jotikasthira received his Ph.D. in finance from Indiana University in 2009. Prior to starting his doctoral coursework, he worked as a Portfolio and Risk Manager for the Bank of Thailand, where he managed $38 billion in foreign-exchange reserves invested in global fixed-income markets and developed quantitative models for formulating investment strategies.
Wahyu Jatmiko (UK)
Wahyu Jatmiko is an Assistant Professor of Banking and Finance at the Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, UK. He also serves as an Academic Conduct Officer (ACO) for Southampton Business School’s Postgraduate Programmes. Wahyu joined the University in 2024. Before joining Southampton Business School, he held positions as a lecturer in sustainable finance at the University of Indonesia and as a PGR Teacher at Durham University Business School, UK. Additionally, he served as the Executive Secretary of the Indonesian Association of Islamic Economists and as the Chairman of the Indonesian Islamic Economic Society in the UK (MES UK).
Wahyu holds a PhD in Finance and an MSc in Islamic Finance from Durham University Business School, UK, as well as a BSc in Economics (major: Financial Economics) from the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Indonesia.
His teaching expertise covers areas such as sustainable finance, climate finance, and Islamic banking and finance. Wahyu’s research interests revolve around ethical and sustainable banking and finance, drawing on multidisciplinary theories. He has made significant contributions to esteemed journals, including the British Journal of Management, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, and Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting.
Wahyu has been actively engaged in impact studies with industry and government institutions, including the Ministry of Finance of Indonesia, Bank Indonesia, the Indonesia Investment Agency, and the Indonesia Hajj Fund.
Paul Lajbcygier (Australia)
Paul Lajbcygier holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of Banking and Finance and the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University, Clayton, Australia.
Paul Lajbcygier’s work focuses on computational finance, investments, asset pricing and market microstructure. He graduated from Melbourne High School and Melbourne University and completed his PhD from Monash University in 2001. Paul has held appointments at The University of Oxford, New York University’s Stern School of Business and London Business School.
He has published his research in leading global journals (including the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Portfolio Management, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, and Journal of Business Ethics), leading to hundreds of citations in leading journals (such as recent citations in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks). His SSRN Author rank in 2015 was 1,221 (of 293,678).
Paul has generated millions of dollars of grant money from varius national and international granting bodies, including various ARC Linkage and Discovery grants.
Paul has been an Excellence Research Australia Peer Reviewer and an Australia Research Council Assessor. Since 1990, Paul has provided investment advice for various domesticand international funds managers, banks and hedge funds. He has had his work widely cited in the international press (including the Age, Chicago Tribune, Reuters, South China Morning Post, Bloomberg, Chief Investment Officer Magazine, CNBC and International Business Times).
Rangga Handika (Japan)
Rangga Handika is an Associate Professor at the Institute of International Strategy (IIS) at Tokyo International University (TIU). He obtained his doctorate both in applied finance and actuarial studies at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) in 2015 and in economics at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Göttingen, Germany) in 2014. In 2016, he received the Distinguished Teaching Award from Abu Dhabi University in recognition of his distinguished teaching. He passed the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Level I and Level II exams.
Dr. Handika has authored several papers in peer-reviewed international journals indexed in Scopus, the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC), and the Association of Business Schools (ABS). His current research includes finance and accounting topics, such as commodity markets, financial contagion, digital finance (cryptocurrency), accounting policy, and asset pricing.
Dr. Handika is also the author of International Financial Risk Management using R and Financial Econometrics using R books. He has secured various national and international research grants. He was invited to present his paper at various academic meetings and conferences around the world. Moreover, he has also served as a financial economics consultant at various institutions.