Speakers

Claudia Custodio

Is a Professor of Finance at Imperial College.

She was awarded her PhD from the London School of Economics in 2010, where she was affiliated with the Financial Markets Group (FMG). She is a research associate at ECGI and a CEPR research fellow. After graduating Claudia spent time in the US working within the Department of Finance at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University before moving back to her native Lisbon to join NOVA school of Business and Economics. Claudia’s research focus is Corporate Finance and her work has been published in academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies. She is also the author of a Corporate Finance textbook in Portuguese » Finanças da Empresa». In 2019 she was awarded an ERC grant to study the impact of financial constraints of small firms on firm growth. 

Francisco Javier Forcadell

Is a Full Professor of Management at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain) and a Senior Researcher at the London School of Economics (U.K.), leading the Sustainable Development Initiative. His current research focuses on sustainable banking, corporate strategy, innovation, and business cooperation. Professor Forcadell has published numerous articles in leading academic journals (including Long Range PlanningResearch PolicyJournal of Business Ethics, and Journal of World Business, among others), some of which are included in the Financial Times 50 list.

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