António Freitas Miguel is an Associate Professor of Finance with Habilitation at ISCTE Business School. He is the Director of the MsC in Finance. He has a PhD in Finance from ISCTE Business School, "Essays on International Investments", supervised by Miguel A. Ferreira, and a Postdoc in Finance from Cass Business School, London. He had visiting positions at The University of Miami Business School, Florida, and at The University of Sydney Business School. He has a large experience teaching Postgraduate, MBA and Executive programs, and he was awarded several times the best teacher prize for excellence in teaching. His research interests include mutual funds and international investments and he is a research member of the Business Research Unit - ISCTE-IUL Research Centre, since 2007, and of the Cass Business School Centre for Asset Management, since 2008. He gained a Post-Doctoral Scholarship (2008-2010), and a Sabbatical Grant (2014-2015), both from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. He also obtained research grants from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology for the project "Performance Persistence and The Smart Money Effect in Mutual Funds - International Evidence" (2010-2013, EUR 45,310), and for the project "Mutual fund management, national culture and markets integration" (2016-2018, EUR 67,500). His research has been published in top tier journals, including the Review of Finance and the Journal of Corporate Finance.

Full Professor of Finance at ISCTE/IUL. He was the Dean of ISCTE Business School and President of INDEG Executive Education. He has also been a non-executive director in several boards of large listed companies such as CIMPOR, CTT and EDP. Currently, he is the Chairman of the Board of EDP Renewables.  He has been a consultant in the areas of risk management, corporate governance and executive compensation. He was also President of the Portuguese Institute of Corporate Governance. He is a regular contributor to the media and he is author of several books in the area of finance.

José Carlos Dias is Full Professor of Finance at the Department of Finance of Iscte Business School. He holds a PhD degree in Finance from Iscte and is the Director of the Department of Finance. He was also the Director of the PhD in Finance and the Director of the Master in Finance of Iscte Business School. His current research interests include option pricing, structured products and exotic options, real options and credit risk. He has published in the Journal of Banking and Finance, Quantitative Finance, European Journal of Operational Research, European Journal of Finance, Journal of Futures Markets, International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, Review of Derivatives Research, Journal of Derivatives, and Applied Mathematics and Optimization, among others.

José Dias Curto is full professor at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL Business School, Quantitative Methods Departament) and investigator at Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal. He earned his PhD in Quantitative Methods for Management from the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), MA in Management from Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) and Bachellor's degree in Economics from Instituto Superior de Economia, Portugal. His primary research focuses statistics and econometrics with applications to finance, accounting and economics. List of journals where he published: Research in International Business and Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, Annals of Economics and Finance, Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research Journal, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money, Statistical Papers, International Statistical Review, European Accounting Review, Australian Accounting Review.

Luciana Barbosa joined ISCTE-IUL in 2021 as an Assistant Professor. She has published articles in top-ranked international journals, such as the European Journal of Operational Research, Energy Economics and Emerging Markets Review. She has teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate level. Her current research interests include the following topics: real options, game theory, investment decisions, renewable energy and real estate. Luciana has more than 20 years of Financial Analysis experience in Brazil, USA, UK and Portugal. Education includes a Ph.D. degree with distinction within the MIT Portugal Program at Instituto Superior Técnico, a Master degree in Finance with distinction at Lancaster University Management School (UK), and a Master degree in Industrial Engineering with distinction at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

LUIS LAUREANO. Assistant Professor at ISCTE Business School and researcher in Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL). Degree in Management (ISCTE-IUL), master in Information Systems Management (ISCTE-IUL) and doctorate in Management- specialization in Finance (ISCTE-IUL). Has taught several finance courses in different undergraduate, post-graduate and masters. Is co-author of books on finance and co-author of papers published in national and international scientific journals.

Rui Alpalhão nasceu em Lisboa em 1963. Licenciou-se em Economia pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, escola onde concluiu um Mestrado em Gestão de Empresas e ensinou entre 1985 e 1999. É Doutor em Finanças pelo Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, escola onde é Professor Associado Convidado e ensina Finanças. Foi administrador de sociedades participadas (e controladas) pelo Banco Totta & Açores e pela Caixa Geral de Depósitos entre 1992 e 2002, ano em que montou o "management buy in" de uma gestora de fundos, cuja administração executiva assegurou entre 2003 e 2013. Fundou, em 2005, a FundBox Holdings, maior accionista de duas sociedades gestoras de fundos, e iniciou actividade no mercado de "distressed assets" em 2013, com a aquisição, em "joint venture" com um financeiro inglês, de um hotel na Quinta do Lago à Parvalorem. Tem dois livros editados em Portugal, e artigos científicos publicados em revistas internacionais como a "Applied Financial Economics", a "Financial History Review", o "International Journal of Financial Research" e a "ISRN Economics".