PHD MENTORING DAY Coordinator

Roberto Steri is an assistant professor of finance at the University of Luxembourg. Previously, he was an assistant professor at HEC Lausanne and an adjunct professor of economics at Duke University, where he taught an elective class in the Daytime MBA program. He earned his Ph.D. in finance from Bocconi University, following a degree in engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan. During his doctoral studies, Roberto was a visiting scholar at Duke University and the Central European University. Roberto’s research has been published in leading finance journals, and he has consistently advised and mentored Ph.D. students throughout his career. His current research interests include the interplay between corporate financing and stock prices, dynamic corporate finance, financial intermediation, computational methods in economics, and the optimal design of procurement auctions. Before transitioning to academia, Roberto gained industry experience as a banking consultant and mergers and acquisitions analyst.

Diana Bonfim is a senior economist (Team Lead) in the Financial Intermediation Division of the Economics and Research Department of Banco de Portugal and an adjunct full professor at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics.  She is a CEPR Research Fellow in Banking and Corporate Finance and in Monetary Economics and Fluctuations. Her research interests comprise empirical banking, corporate finance, and the transmission of monetary policy. She has published in leading journals in finance, such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science or Review of Finance. She is co-editor of the International Journal of Central Banking and associate editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Financial Stability, Emerging Markets Review and Economic Notes.

Fernando Zapatero is the Richard D. Cohen Professor in Management in the Questrom School of Business at Boston University and the Chair of the Finance Department. Before that he was the Robert G. Kirby Chair in Behavioral Finance in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He has coauthored the textbook Introduction to the Economics and Mathematics of Financial Markets and authored or coauthored over forty published articles. His main research interests are in Asset Pricing and Behavioral Finance.