Catherine Kyrtsou is Professor of MacroFinance in the Department of Economics at the University of Macedonia, Greece and is associated with EconomiX, University of Paris Nanterre. She is also Deputy Director of CAC at the IXXI Institut Rhône-Alpin des Systèmes Complexes in Lyon, France. Her research focuses on money and capital markets, investors' behaviour, financial instability, economic complexity and monetary policy.

Didier Sornette is Professor and Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He is also a Professor at the Swiss Finance Institute and is associated with both the departments of Physics and of Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich. He is the founder of the Financial Crisis Observatory and Systematic Investment Management AG.

Chris Adcock is Professor of Quantitative Finance at SOAS, University of London, UK. His research focuses on portfolio selection and asset pricing theory. He is an advisor to several investment managers and the Founding Editor of The European Journal of Finance.