Quantitative Finance and Risk Analysis Symposium (QFRA 2026)
The ninth Symposium on Quantitative Finance and Risk Analysis (QFRA 2026) aims to further specialised and synergetic developments in both theory and practice.
Our symposium aims to bring experts and decision makers, who are from different disciplines but working on similar problems, together to share information and solve challenges through cross-fertilisation.
This event and subsequent publications will help transition intellectual discussions into robust frameworks for handling emerging vulnerabilities and risks, and provide the leadership and initiative required to respond to national and international financial crises.
Papers are now being accepted - for more information, see Authors' Area below.
Speakers
Professor Alexander (Alex) Michaelides, Imperial College Business School, London, UK
Prof Michaelides has been a Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School since September 2013. He is also a Research Fellow at CEPR (International Macroeconomics and Financial Economics Programmes). His research interests include household finance (for example, portfolio choice over the life cycle), asset pricing with heterogeneous agents and financial frictions, housing markets and topics in the intersection of macroeconomics and finance.
He has held visiting scholar positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and was a Wim Duisenberg Research Fellow at the European Central Bank (2012) and a senior researcher at the Central Bank of Cyprus (2009-2010). Between May 2013 and November 2013 he was a non-executive member of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Cyprus. He was also Head of the Department of Finance at Imperial College Business School between October 2014 and April 2021. He has been the school’s Director of Postgraduate Studies since September 2023.
Professor Gordon M. Phillips, Laurence F. Whittemore Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Finance, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, USA
As well as holding professorships at Tuck School of Business, Prof Phillips is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a visiting research professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing and UNSW in Sydney.
He received his MA and PhD from Harvard University and his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University. He previously taught at the University of Southern California and the University of Maryland. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), Duke University, HEC Paris, INSEAD, MIT, and Southern Mediterranean University.
Prof Phillips’ areas of research include computational linguistics, AI and finance, household finance, and corporate finance. His work in AI and finance includes studies of merger synergies and the scope of firms. His corporate finance work includes studies of private equity, mergers, and competition. He has published recent research in the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Finance, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Review of Financial Studies. He has given keynote addresses on Finance and AI in Cyprus, Paris, and Singapore, and has served as the president of the Midwest Finance Association.
Event Details
- Date:
- 18 June 2026 at 9:00 am – 20 June 2026 at 5:00 pm
- Venue:
- Hotel Palatino, Zakynthos Town, Zakynthos, Greece
- Cost:
- $350 - $1100
Description
The ninth Symposium on Quantitative Finance and Risk Analysis (QFRA 2026) aims to further specialised and synergetic developments in both theory and practice.
Our symposium aims to bring experts and decision makers, who are from different disciplines but working on similar problems, together to share information and solve challenges through cross-fertilisation.
This event and subsequent publications will help transition intellectual discussions into robust frameworks for handling emerging vulnerabilities and risks, and provide the leadership and initiative required to respond to national and international financial crises.
Papers are now being accepted - for more information, see Authors' Area below.
Speakers
Professor Alexander (Alex) Michaelides, Imperial College Business School, London, UK
Prof Michaelides has been a Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School since September 2013. He is also a Research Fellow at CEPR (International Macroeconomics and Financial Economics Programmes). His research interests include household finance (for example, portfolio choice over the life cycle), asset pricing with heterogeneous agents and financial frictions, housing markets and topics in the intersection of macroeconomics and finance.
He has held visiting scholar positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and was a Wim Duisenberg Research Fellow at the European Central Bank (2012) and a senior researcher at the Central Bank of Cyprus (2009-2010). Between May 2013 and November 2013 he was a non-executive member of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Cyprus. He was also Head of the Department of Finance at Imperial College Business School between October 2014 and April 2021. He has been the school’s Director of Postgraduate Studies since September 2023.
Professor Gordon M. Phillips, Laurence F. Whittemore Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Finance, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, USA
As well as holding professorships at Tuck School of Business, Prof Phillips is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a visiting research professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing and UNSW in Sydney.
He received his MA and PhD from Harvard University and his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University. He previously taught at the University of Southern California and the University of Maryland. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), Duke University, HEC Paris, INSEAD, MIT, and Southern Mediterranean University.
Prof Phillips’ areas of research include computational linguistics, AI and finance, household finance, and corporate finance. His work in AI and finance includes studies of merger synergies and the scope of firms. His corporate finance work includes studies of private equity, mergers, and competition. He has published recent research in the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Finance, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Review of Financial Studies. He has given keynote addresses on Finance and AI in Cyprus, Paris, and Singapore, and has served as the president of the Midwest Finance Association.