We are glad to announce the first key-note speaker who will deliver a speech at the International conference “CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL” to be held in Rome on February 27, 2018 : Dr Cesario Mateus, Department of Accounting & Finance, Business School, University of Greenwich, London, UK

Dr Mateus joined the University of Greenwich in 2006. He holds a PhD in Finance from Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, Denmark, an MSc in Finance, and a BSc Hons in Economics. He has received grants and scholarships from the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, the American Finance Association and Financial Management Association.

Dr Mateus has written more than 40 academic papers (for the European Journal of Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, Quarterly Review Economics and Finance, Journal of International Economic Law and other titles) and has presented his research at invited seminars and international conferences in more than 30 countries. His research focuses on:

firms’ financing decisions
valuations
right issues and recently,
portfolio management and evaluation
hedge funds
ETFs’ performance
and spillover effects.

Dr Mateus has been cooperating with several academic journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Empirical Finance, International Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies, International Journal of Managerial Finance, and National Tax Journal. He has taught as a visiting professor at several universities, including:

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona);
Cass Business School
University of Southampton
University of Birmingham
Aston Business School (UK)
Catholic University of Lisbon
University of Melbourne (Australia)
Grenoble School of Management (France and Singapore)
and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, (Brazil).

Dr Mateus was also a visiting scholar at the Department of Finance at The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, USA (2003); consultant at the Portuguese Stock Exchange Commission research department (2008–09); and Millennium BCP (1992–99).