Ms. Andrea Brischetto

Head of Financial Stability Department in the Financial System Group, The Reserve Bank of Australia

Andrea Brischetto is Head of Financial Stability Department at the Reserve Bank of Australia. Prior to that she spent three years as Deputy Head of the Domestic Markets Department at the Reserve Bank. Andrea has also previously been the Deputy Secretary of the Reserve Bank and worked in the Reserve Bank’s Economic Group, International Department and Payments Policy Department. She holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a First Class Bachelor of Economics from the University of Queensland.

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Professor Sumit Agarwal

Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Business School and a Professor of Economics and Real Estate at the National University of Singapore (NUS)

Sumit Agarwal is Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Business School and a Professor of Economics and Real Estate at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is the Managing Director of Sustainable and Green Finance Institute at NUS. He is also the President of Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research. In the past, he has held positions as a Professor of Finance at the Business School, Georgetown University. Before that he was a senior financial economist in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and prior to joining the Chicago Fed, he was a senior vice president and credit risk management executive in the Small Business Risk Solutions Group of Bank of America. Sumit’s research interests include issues relating to household sustainablity, financial institutions, household finance, behavioral finance, and real estate markets. He has published over one hundred and twenty five research articles in economics and finance journals among others. Additionally, he has co-written six books titled Why We Feel Blue When the Air is Grey , Kiasunomics 3, Introduction to Household Financial Management , Kiasunomics 2, Household Finance: A Functional Approach , and Kiasunomics , and also co-edited two collected volumes titled Impact of COVID-19 on Asian Economies and Policy Responses, and Household Credit Usage: Personal Debt and Mortgages. He writes regular op-ed’s in the Straits Times and is featured on various media outlets like the CNA, BBC, CNBC, and Fox on issues relating to finance, banking, and real estate markets. Sumit’s research is widely cited in leading newspapers and magazines like the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, and the U.S Presidents Report to Congress. He also runs a Podcast on household financial decision making called Kiasunomics.

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Professor Robert Faff

Research Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest; Emeritus Professor, University of Queensland; Honorary Adjunct Professor, Bond Business School

Editor-in-Chief, Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Robert Faff (FASSA, 2021-24) is Research Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest, Emeritus Professor at UQ and Honorary Adjunct Professor at Bond University. He has an international reputation in empirical finance research: 15 Australian Research Council grants (funding $4 million+); 370+ refereed journal publications – 50 x A* (ABDC); career citations 24,000+, with a h-index of 76 (Google Scholar). His particular passion is nurturing the career trajectories of early career researchers. Robert has supervised almost 50 PhD students to successful completion. Building on a 40-year+ academic career, his signature focus is “Pitching Research” [https://ssrn.com/abstract=2462059], with worldwide penetration signalled by: (a) > 29,000 SSRN downloads; (b) > 400 pitching talks/events; (c) at 37 Australian universities; (d) spanning 54 different countries. Further, he is the Founder & President of the InSPiR2eS research network [https://pitchingresearch.com/inspir2es-network/] and creator of the InSPiR2eS Centre for Responsible Science. In addition, Robert is current Editor-in-Chief of Pacific-Basin Finance Journal; formerly: Editor of Accounting and Finance (2002-2011).

Title of Workshop: Professor Faff will hold a workshop (via Zoom) on “Pre-registered Research Matters! and PBFJ publishing tips”