2026 New Zealand Finance Meeting

Zacharias is Professor of Sustainable Finance at University of Zurich and Senior Chair at the Swiss Finance Institute. He works on sustainable finance, ESG, climate finance, and biodiversity finance. Through his research, he provides insights on how finance can contribute to a more sustainable future.

His research has been published in top journals, such as the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, or Journal of Financial Economics, has downloaded more than 130,000 times on SSRN and cited more than 14,000 times according to Google Scholar. His paper "Firm-level Climate Change Exposure" is the most cited paper published in the Journal of Finance in the past 5 years. He is an Associate Editor at the Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and an advisor of asset management companies on sustainable finance issues. He serves as a Director of the European Finance Association and on the judging panel for the PRI Awards.

At University of Zurich, Zacharias heads the Initiative in Sustainable Finance, one of the world's leading clusters for research on sustainability.

Min Dai is the Chair Professor in Applied Statistics and Financial Mathematics, Department of Applied Mathematics and School of Accounting and Finance, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU).

Prior to joining PolyU in 2021, he taught at the National University of Singapore and Peking University after receiving his PhD degree from Fudan University in 2000. His research focuses on financial derivative pricing, portfolio selection with market imperfections, corporate finance, and financial technology. He published in peer-reviewed journals across disciplines, including the Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Finance, Management Science, Mathematical Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and SIAM Journals.

Currently, he is the chairman of the INFORMS Finance section, a council member of the Bachelier Finance Society, a Co-editor of Digital Finance, and serves on the editorial boards of some academic journals, including Operations Research, Finance and Stochastics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics.

• The 2026 NZFM Best Paper Award (NZD 2,000)
• The 2025 NZFM Runner-Up Paper Award (NZD 1,000)
• The 2026 NZFM Best PhD Student Paper Award  (NZD 1,000)

Adrian Fernandez-Perez, University College Dublin, Ireland
Alireza Tourani-Rad, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Bart Frijns, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Ben Marshall, Massey University, New Zealand
Chandra Krishnamurti, Adelaide University, Australia
Henrik Cronqvist, Chapman University, United States
Charles Cao, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Christina Atanasova, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Clara Zhou, Macquarie University, Australia
Darius Palia, Rutgers Business School, United States
David Tripe, Massey University, New Zealand
Dong Wook Lee, Korea University Business School, South Korea
Eliza Wu, University of Sydney, Australia
Elvira Sojli, University of New South Wales, Australia
Erik Schlogl, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Eva Liljeblom, Hanken School of Economics, Finland
Evangelos Vagenas-Nanos, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Gertjan Verdickt, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Hae Won (Henny) Jung, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Helen Lu, Vlerick Business School, Belgium
Henk Berkman, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Hung-Neng Lai, National Central University, Taiwan
Ivan Indriawan, University of Adelaide, Australia
Jedrzej Bialkowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Jing Chi, Massey University, New Zealand
Jiri Svec, University of Sydney, Australia
Joakim Westerholm, University of Sydney, Australia
Joelle Miffre, Audencia Business School, France
John Wald, University of Texas San Antonio, United States
Jordan Neyland, Bentley University, United States
Joseph Chen, University of California, United States
Kathleen Kahle, University of Arizona, United States

Kathleen Walsh, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Kathy Yuan, London School of Business, United Kingdom
Le Zhang, Australian National University, Australia
Li Yang, University of New South Wales, Australia
Lina El-Jahel, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Madhu Kalimipalli, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Manapol Ekkayokkaya, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
McKay Price, Lehigh University, United States
Min Zhu, University of Queensland, Australia
Ming-Hua Liu, University of Macau, Macau
Na Dai, SUNY at Albany, United States
Nhut (Nick) Nguyen, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Oliver Entrop, Passau University, Germany
Paul Geertsema, Vlerick Business School, Belguim
Peter O'Neill, UNSW, Australia
Remco Zwinkels, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Robert Webb, University of Virginia, United States
Rossen Valkanov, University of California San Diego, United States
Roy Kouwenberg, Mahidol University, Thailand
Sean Foley, Macquarie University, Australia
Shaojun Zhang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Stefanie Kleimeier, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Sun Qian, Fudan University, China
Thanos Verousis, Vlerick Business School, Belgium
Tina Yang, University of South Florida, United States
Vikas Agarwal, Georgia State University, United States
Ville Rantala, University of Miami, United States
Vitali Alexeev, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Wolfgang Bessler, Hamburg University, Germany
Yeejin Jang, University of New South Wales, Australia
Yuanto Kusnadi, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Yulia Veld-Merkoulova, Monash University, Australia
Zhuo Zhong, University of Melbourne, Australia