Professor SHERIDAN TITMAN

• McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Services, University of Texas at Austin
• Research Associate, the National Bureau of Economic Research
• Editor, Review of Financial Studies
• Director of the Energy Management and Innovation Center, University of Texas at Austin
• Director of Center for Energy Finance, University of Texas at Austin
• Director of Real Estate Finance and Investment Center, University of Texas at Austin

Sheridan Titman holds the McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Services at the University of Texas at Austin and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Texas, Sheridan was a Professor at UCLA, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Boston College and spent the 1988-89 academic year in Washington D.C. as the special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy.  Sheridan’s academic publications include both theoretical and empirical articles on asset pricing, corporate finance, energy finance, real estate finance and urban economics. He has also co-authored three finance textbooks, Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy, Valuation: The Art and Science of Corporate Investment Decisions, and Financial Management: Principles and Applications. He won the Smith-Breeden best paper award for the Journal of Finance, the GSAM best paper award for the Review of Finance and was a recipient of the Batterymarch Fellowship.  Sheridan has served on the editorial boards of leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies and Real Estate Economics and has served as President of the Western Finance Association, the American Finance Association and the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association and has served as a Director of the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, the Financial Management Association and the Asia Pacific Finance Association. 

Sheridan has a B.S. from the University of Colorado and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.. 

PROFESSOR SU DINH THANH

Mr. Su Dinh Thanh, Editor–in-Chief of Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies (JABES), University of Economics HCM (UEH), Vietnam

Mr. Su Dinh Thanh is Editor-in-Chief of JABES, UEH. Mr. Su has over 30 years of teaching and research experience in finance and banking. Recently, Mr. Su has a significant contribution to developing JABES as a Vietnam’s first international journal, which is published on Emerald. Mr. Su was former dean of School of Public Finance, UEH.

He has been serving academies and universities, and giving lectures and seminars to several universities, and invited by many universities to present papers or conduct seminars. He is the chairman of international conference ACBES (UEH) in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

He has published 10 books and published more than one hundred papers including papers published in Economic Analysis and Policy, Research in International Business and Finance, International Economics, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Centre of Sociological Research, Finance Research Letters, Climate and Development, International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Theoretical Economics Letters, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, Review of development finance, International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Economic Systems, Journal of Economic Development.

Dr XUAN HOA HOANG

• Research Associate in different Institutes
• Assistant Politburo Member, Vietnam Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue

Dr Hoa is an Assistant Politburo Member, Vietnam Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue.

He graduated in National University Vietnam and soon after his graduation he focused his interests in International business by attending a Master course in the National Economic University in 1997. In 2002, he completed his studies in International Business by obtaining Doctorate of Philosophy degree in the Trade Research Institute, Ministry of Trade. He spent one year in mastering his research skills in University of Bocconi, Milan, Italy in 2003.

 Dr Hoa served many years’ in the European Research Institute, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences as a researcher. From 2003 to 2018, he served for Department of General Economics, Vietnam Central Economic Board and had a number of important researches supporting for National economic policies. In 2018, he was called for Assistant Politburo Member, Vietnam Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue.