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Conference Chairs: Cavalcade North America

2024, Georgia State University

Chair: Jules van Binsbergen (The Wharton School)
Vice Chair: Laura Veldkamp (Columbia Business School)
Associate Chair: Joshua D. Rauh (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

Host’s Faculty Sponsors: Hadiye Aslan

2023, University of Texas at Austin

Chair: Victoria Ivashina (Harvard Business School)
Vice Chair: Jules van Binsbergen (The Wharton School)
Associate Chair: Laura Veldkamp (Columbia Business School)

Host’s Faculty Sponsors: Laura Starks

2022, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chair: Andrea Eisfeldt (UCLA Anderson School of Management)
Vice Chair: Victoria Ivashina (Harvard Business School)
Associate Chair: 
Jules van Binsbergen (The Wharton School)
Host’s Faculty Sponsors: Paolo Fulghieri, Christian Lundblad

2021, MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy (Virtual Conference)

Chair: Ulrike Malmendier (UC Berkeley)
Vice Chair: Andrea Eisfeldt (UCLA)
Associate Chair: Victoria Ivashina (Harvard Business School)
SFS Advisory Chair: Wei Jiang (Columbia Business School)

Host’s Faculty Sponsors: Deborah Lucas, Ed Golding

2020, Indiana University (Virtual Conference)

Chair: Monika Piazzesi (Stanford University)
Vice Chair: Ulrike Malmendier (UC Berkeley)
Associate Chair: Andrea Eisfeldt (UCLA)
SFS Advisory Chair: Josef Zechner (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Host’s Faculty Sponsors: Craig Holden

2019, Carnegie Mellon University  

Chair: Antoinette Schoar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Vice Chair: Monika Piazzesi (Stanford University)
Associate Chair: Ulrike Malmendier (UC Berkeley)
SFS Advisory Chair: Josef Zechner (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Host’s Faculty Sponsors: Burton Hollifield, Lars A. Kuehn, and Chester Spatt

2018, Yale University 

Chair: Amir Yaron (University of Pennsylvania)
Vice Chair: Antoinette Schoar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Associate Chair: Monika Piazzesi (Stanford University)
SFS Advisory Chair: Josef Zechner (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Host’s Faculty Sponsor: Matthew Spiegel

2017, Vanderbilt University 

Chair: Heitor Almeida (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Vice Chair: Amir Yaron (University of Pennsylvania)
Associate Chair: Antoinette Schoar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
SFS Advisory Chair: Laura Starks (University of Texas at Austin)
Host’s Faculty Sponsor: Robert E. Whaley

2016, University of Toronto

Chair: Hanno Lustig (Stanford University)
Vice Chair: Heitor Almeida (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Associate Chair: Amir Yaron (University of Pennsylvania)
SFS Advisory Chairs: Matthew Spiegel (Yale University) and Laura Starks (University of Texas at Austin)
Host’s Faculty Sponsors: Craig Doidge, Peter Christoffersen

2015, Georgia Tech

Chair: Wei Jiang (Columbia University)
Vice Chair: Hanno Lustig (University of California, Los Angeles)
Associate Chair: Heitor Almeida (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
SFS Advisory Chairs: Matthew Spiegel (Yale University) and Laura Starks (University of Texas at Austin)
Host’s Faculty Sponsor: Sudheer Chava

2014, Georgetown University

Chair: Toni Whited (University of Rochester)
Vice Chair: Andrew Karolyi (Cornell University)
Associate Chair: Wei Jiang (Columbia University)
SFS Advisory Chair: Matthew Spiegel (Yale University)
Host’s Faculty Sponsor: Reena Aggarwal

2013, University of Miami

Chair: John Griffin (UT Austin)
Vice Chair: Toni Whited (University of Rochester)
Associate Chair: Andrew Karolyi (Cornell University)
SFS Advisory Chair: Matthew Spiegel (Yale University)
Host’s Faculty Sponsor: Douglas Emery

2012, University of Virginia

Chair: Ivo Welch (UCLA)
Vice Chair: John Griffin (UT Austin)
Associate Chair: Thomas Philippon (NYU)
SFS Advisory Chair: Matthew Spiegel (Yale University)
Host’s Faculty Sponsor: Marc Lipson

2011, University of Michigan

Matthew Spiegel (Yale University)
Paolo Fulghieri (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Wayne Ferson (University of Southern California)
Host’s Faculty Sponsors: Sugato Bhattacharyya, E. Han Kim, Paolo Pasquariello, Tyler Shumway