::: Keynote Speakers :::

Joel Hasbrouck is the Kenneth G. Langone Professor of Business Administration and a Professor of Finance at the Stern School. His primary area of research is market microstructure (the analysis, design and regulation of trading mechanisms for securities). In addition to teaching at Stern, he has served as a consultant to the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial Studies, Advisory Editor of the Journal of Financial Markets, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Econometrics, and the Journal of Financial Intermediation. He serves on the scientific advisory board of ITG, Inc., and is a former member of Nasdaq's economic advisory board. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Chemistry from Haverford College.

Professor Neil Shephard is Research Director of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance and a Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a Fellow of the British Academy. His research interests are mainly focused on econometrics – particularly working with high frequency data to try and understand financial volatility, market microstructure and the role of jumps in financial markets.