Professor Vikrant VIG is the William R. Timken Professor and Professor of Finance, Stanford University and a Senior Fellow of ABFER. Prior to this, he was a Henry D. Bullock Chaired Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management. He was also the Term Chair Professor of Finance at the London Business School. His research interest lies at the intersection of Law, Politics, and Organizations. The objective of his research is to further our understanding of ways by which we can structure financial contracts and design institutions, to improve the overall efficiency of credit markets. His papers have been published in leading journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies. He was previously Editor of the Review of Finance and later served on the advisory board of that journal. His research has won several awards for and has been featured in leading media outlets, including the Economist, the Financial Times New York Times, the Wall Street Journal. He received his PhD (with Distinction) from Columbia University; Master of Finance, MBA, and Master of Science in Engineering from the University of Illinois; and his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delhi.

Wenlan Qian is Professor of Finance and Real Estate, and Ng Teng Fong Chair Professor in Real Estate at the NUS Business School. She is fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economics Research, Luohan Academy at Alibaba Group, and the Homer Hoyt Weimer School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Land Economics. Currently, Wenlan Qian is editor of Real Estate Economics and associate editor of Financial Management.

Wenlan Qian's main research interests are household finance, real estate, digitization and FinTech, short sellers, financial intermediaries. She is the recipient of multiple prestigious external grants and has won the best paper awards at leading international conferences in finance and real estate. Her research is accepted for publication at top academic journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Management Science, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Review of Finance.

Wenlan Qian holds a PhD in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.