Plenary Session: 21^st December 2023

Speaker: Prof. (Dr.) Robert Faff

Associate Dean – Research, Professor, Centre for Data Analytics, University Professorial Fellow, Bond Business School, Robina, Australia

Topic: The Art of Pitching Finance Research … Responsibly

Prof. Robert Faff is the Associate Dean – Research and University Professorial Fellow, Professor, Centre for Data Analytics, Robina, Australia. Professor Faff’s research focuses on empirical finance and accounting, with particular emphasis on asset pricing, corporate finance, and capital markets. His research focuses on pitching research, risk factors, trading strategies, alternative investments, mutual & hedge funds, credit ratings, risk modelling, behavioural finance, stock liquidity, risk management & hedging, insider trading, rights offerings, capital structure, financial risk tolerance, M&As, corporate governance, and bank risk taking. He has 358 peer-reviewed articles published across more than 80 different titles. Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Business, Journal of Financial Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Review of Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Accounting & Finance. He has a Doctor Honoris Causa (Bucharest University of Economic Studies) in 2015, a PhD (Monash) in 1994, a MEc (ANU) in 1986, a BEc Hons. (ANU) in 1984, and an FCPA in 1984. He has won numerous research awards, including the AANZ Best Manuscript Award for Best Paper Published in Accounting and Finance in 1988 and 2001, the E. Yetton Award for Best Manuscript Published in the Australian Journal of Management in 1998 and 2000, the JASSA Merit Award, and the Dae-Yang Prize for Best Paper Published in the Journal of Economic Integration in 2003. Overall Chair (and Finance Panel Chair) of the 2013 ABDC Journal Rating List Review Panel. He also served on the Managing Board of the European Institute of Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) from 2014 to 2023.