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    Professor Sumit Agarwal

    Professor of Finance at the Business School and a Professor of Economics and Real Estate at the National University of Singapore, Singapore

     
    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. 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.

    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.

       

    Professor Andrea Cilloni

    Associate Professor in Business Administration at the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Parma, Italy

    Andrea Cilloni is an Associate Professor at the University of Parma, where he holds the teaching position of Professor in Management Accounting and other topics.

    He held several teaching positions at the University of Parma and he has served as Visiting Professor and Scholar in European, Japanese, North American, and South American Universities: FECAP, Sao Paolo, Brazil; Kwansey Gakuin University, Nishinomia; Japan; Hiroshima-Shudo University, Hiroshima, Japan; UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina; UBC, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Universidade Lusofona, Lisboa, Portugal just to mention some of them.

    He studied at Degree and Post-Degree Levels at the University of Parma, the University of Cardiff, United Kingdom, and at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

    He has published many articles in Italian and International Accounting and Business Economics Journals: “Accounting Education, an International Journal”, “Cultura e contabilità aziendale”, “De Computis - Revista Española de Historia de la Contabilidad, The Spanish Journal of Accounting History”, “Rivista Italiana di Ragioneria ed Economia Aziendale”.

    The present research is concentrated on Management Accounting, Accounting History, Accounting Education, Accounting, and Information Systems.