Full Professor of Finance at ISCTE/IUL. He was the Dean of ISCTE Business School and President of INDEG Executive Education. He has also been a non-executive director in several boards of large listed companies such as CIMPOR, CTT and EDP. Currently, he is the Chairman of the Board of EDP Renewables.  He has been a consultant in the areas of risk management, corporate governance and executive compensation. He was also President of the Portuguese Institute of Corporate Governance. He is a regular contributor to the media and he is author of several books in the area of finance.

José Carlos Dias is Full Professor of Finance at the Department of Finance of Iscte Business School. He holds a PhD degree in Finance from Iscte and is the Director of the Department of Finance. He was also the Director of the PhD in Finance and the Director of the Master in Finance of Iscte Business School. His current research interests include option pricing, structured products and exotic options, volatility derivatives, real options and credit risk. He has published in the Journal of Banking and Finance, Quantitative Finance, European Journal of Operational Research, European Journal of Finance, Journal of Futures Markets, International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, Review of Derivatives Research, Journal of Derivatives, and Applied Mathematics and Optimization, among others.

José Dias Curto is full professor at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL Business School, Quantitative Methods Departament) and investigator at Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal. He earned his PhD in Quantitative Methods for Management from the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), MA in Management from Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) and Bachellor's degree in Economics from Instituto Superior de Economia, Portugal. His primary research focuses statistics and econometrics with applications to finance, accounting and economics. List of journals where he published: Research in International Business and Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, Annals of Economics and Finance, Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research Journal, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money, Statistical Papers, International Statistical Review, European Accounting Review, Australian Accounting Review.

LUIS LAUREANO. Assistant Professor at ISCTE Business School and researcher in Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL). Degree in Management (ISCTE-IUL), master in Information Systems Management (ISCTE-IUL) and doctorate in Management- specialization in Finance (ISCTE-IUL). Has taught several finance courses in different undergraduate, post-graduate and masters. Is co-author of books on finance and co-author of papers published in national and international scientific journals.

Rui Alpalhão nasceu em Lisboa em 1963. Licenciou-se em Economia pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, escola onde concluiu um Mestrado em Gestão de Empresas e ensinou entre 1985 e 1999. É Doutor em Finanças pelo Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, escola onde é Professor Associado Convidado e ensina Finanças. Foi administrador de sociedades participadas (e controladas) pelo Banco Totta & Açores e pela Caixa Geral de Depósitos entre 1992 e 2002, ano em que montou o "management buy in" de uma gestora de fundos, cuja administração executiva assegurou entre 2003 e 2013. Fundou, em 2005, a FundBox Holdings, maior accionista de duas sociedades gestoras de fundos, e iniciou actividade no mercado de "distressed assets" em 2013, com a aquisição, em "joint venture" com um financeiro inglês, de um hotel na Quinta do Lago à Parvalorem. Tem dois livros editados em Portugal, e artigos científicos publicados em revistas internacionais como a "Applied Financial Economics", a "Financial History Review", o "International Journal of Financial Research" e a "ISRN Economics".