International Conference in Naples (October 3-4, 2019)

Keynote speakers

Marina Brogi

(Professor of International Banking & Capital Markets, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)

Marina Brogi is Full Professor at Sapienza University of Rome, where she also served as Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Economics (2011-2017). She teaches International banking and capital markets as well as corporate governance in graduate, MBA, PhD and executive courses at Sapienza University and other universities in Italy and abroad. She is a chairperson of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Financial Risk Managers Association (AIFIRM) and Member of the MSCI Thought Leadership Council on Corporate Governance Fundamentals and of the Scientific Committee of the Research Centre of Confindustria (the main association representing manufacturing and service companies in Italy). She is the author of numerous publications and her research interests are bank management, corporate governance of banks and listed companies, and capital markets. She has been invited to present her Expert opinion to public hearings of the Italian Senate and of Italy’s lower house and has been appointed by the Bank of Italy in the governance bodies of banks in liquidation. From January 2014 to June 2016 she was one of the 5 top-ranking independent academics appointed among the 30 members who make up the Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group of the European Securities and Markets Authority as provided for in article 37 of the ESMA Regulation (1095/2010/EU).

Sibel Yamak

(Professor of Management, University of Wolverhampton Business School, the UK)

Sibel Yamak is a professor of management at the University of Wolverhampton. She has a doctorate degree in Organization Theory from Bogaziçi University. She has been a permanent and/or visiting scholar at different universities such as Galatasaray University, Dauphine University, Panthéon Sorbonne University, Southampton University and Manchester University among others. She specialises in governance with a focus on the relationship between business elites and state, contextual antecedents and impact of top management teams, governance and democratisation relationship and sustainability. Her works have been published in peer reviewed journals such as British Journal of Management, Strategic Management Journal, Group and Organization Management, European Management Journal, Journal of World Business, International Journal of Human Resource Management. She is an editorial board member of Society and Business Review and European Management Review. She is actively involved with different academic associations such as Academy of Management where she previously acted as Management Education and Development Division Research Coordinator. She is the former President of the European Academy of Management. Currently, she is the executive committee member of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management. She is the scientific council member of several universities in France.