ORGANIZERS

Norman received his PhD from Goethe University in Frankfurt and subsequently worked as Assistant Professor of Finance at University of St. Gallen. 2012 he moved to Amsterdam to work as an Assistant Professor of Finance (tenured 2017) at the finance department of the VU University. In 2019 Norman has been promoted to Associate Professor of Finance. His primary research interests are the fields of asset pricing, financial econometrics, derivatives, commodities, international macroeconomics and finance.

Andreas Kaeck is Professor of Finance at the University of Sussex. His research interests cover investment-related research problems, as well as topics in financial econometrics, derivatives pricing and asset pricing. His current work focuses on studying asset pricing effects of earnings announcement risk. Andreas holds a PhD from the ICMA Centre, University of Reading (2010). Prior to joining the Finance Group at Sussex, he was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of St Gallen (Switzerland) from 2012 to 2013.

Monique Donders, Managing Director, is the Country Manager for the Netherlands and a member of the EMEA Executive Committee. Ms. Donders was head of the Dutch Institutional Client Business from 2015 until 2017. Prior to joining BlackRock, Ms. Donders held several positions at Robeco, amongst others as Chief Risk Officer. From 2000-2009, Ms. Donders was Professor of Financial management at the University of Maastricht, responsible for the Master's program in risk management of financial institutions. From 1990 till 2002 she held various roles at MeesPierson, the Institute for Research and Investment Services and Erasmus University. Ms. Donders holds a PhD in Finance from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam where she also studied Econometrics.