Leading international experts join the 2019 FMA Conference

According to the official program of the Asia-Pacific Financial Management Conference 2019, 130 reports from scholars will be presented at the Conference.

One of the keynote speakers of the conference is Dr. Gordon Phillips, a leading expert in financial management. He has a plenary session at the Opening Ceremony.

Dr. Gordon Phillips is currently the faculty director of the Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital and the Laurence F. Whittemore Professor of Business Administration, Dartmouth College, USA. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a visiting research professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing (China). He received his MA and Ph.D. from Harvard University. His major scientific research is published in leading financial journals such as The Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Corporate Finance, and the Journal of Political Economy. Research by Dr. Gordon Phillips mainly focuses on the issue of equity issuance, capital structure, bankruptcy, and how leverage buyouts and other forms of high debt influence a firms' and rivals' investment decisions.

In addition, many other well-known scholars in the field will also join the Conference as chairmen of discussion sessions as follows:

- Assoc. Prof. Stephen G Dimmock, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Editor of Journal of Pension Economics and Finance;

- Dr. Mark J. Flannery, University of Florida, USA; Chief economist and Director of  the Division of Economics and Risk Analysis at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission;

- Prof. Raghavendra Rau, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Chairman of the European Financial Management Association, Editor-in-Chief of Financial Management journal;

-Prof. Stephen Siegel, University of Washington, USA;

-Prof. Iftekhar Hasan, Fordham University, USA; Director of Center for research in contemporary finance of Fordham University;

-Assoc Prof. Yingying Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Vice editor in chief of Econometrics Journal

-Prof. Utpal Bhattacharya, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Vice editor in chief of the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Markets.

-Prof. Allaudeen Hameed, National University of Singapore; vice editor in chief of the Financial Management and Pacific-Basin Finance Journal

Asia-Pacific Financial Management Conference 2019 is co-organized by the Financial Management Association (FMA) and Ton Duc Thang University (TDTU), taking place from 10 to 12 July 2019 at TDTU. This is the first time FMA has organized a conference in Vietnam. Prof. Le Vinh Danh, TDTU President is the Co-Chair of the Conference.

Established in 1970, the Financial Management Association International (FMA) is a global leader in developing and disseminating knowledge about financial decision making. FMA's mission is to broaden the common interests between academicians and practitioners, provide opportunities for professional interaction between and among academicians, practitioners and students, promote the development and understanding of basic and applied research and of sound financial practices, and to enhance the quality of education in finance.

FMA regularly organizes Annual Meetings, Conferences and other academic activities to connect educators, researchers, and practitioners around the world to exchange knowledge and discuss issues that arise in the global and regional financial sector.

The Asia-Pacific Financial Management Conference is one of the annual FMA conferences which is held in Asian countries, and focuses on typical Asia-Pacific issues, in addition to global financial issues.

The country selected by FMA to organize a conference is usually a country with developed economy such as Japan (2014), Korea (2015), Australia (2016), Taiwan (2017), Hong Kong (2018). In particular, the host venue for the conference must be a prominent university, with outstanding scientific research achievements and exceptionally high reputation and internationalization, such as Hong Kong Polytechnic University, National Taiwan University, University of New South Wales or Australian National University.

In 2019, Vietnam was selected as the hosting country of the 11th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference and Ton Duc Thang University (TDTU) is honored to be, together with FMA, the co-organizer of this event.